Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is not expected in Paris on July 13 to attend the heads of state and government summit to officially launch President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed Union for the Mediterranean (UPM), according to official sources. "The Libyan leader will not attend the inaugural summit on July13... This does not really call for grief," according to sources within the French presidential palace. While presiding over the official opening ceremony of a mini-Arab summit in Tripoli on June 10, Col. Gaddafi had forcefully rejected the proposed Union for the Mediterranean, describing it as an attempt to undermine Arab and African unity. In a tersely-worded speech, President Gaddafi said that the original project of his friend, President Nicolas Sarkozy, had been watered down after running into vehement opposition from a...
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