LIBYAN LEADER GIVES INTERVIEW TO GERMAN TELEVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400370015-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: October 2, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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TRIPOLJ ARNA IN ARABIC 1530 GMT 2 OCT 75 LD
((TEXT)) TRIPOLI- COL MU' AMMAR AL- QADHDHAFI, CHAIRMAN OF THE
REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL, HAS STRESSED THAT THE 1 ONE SEPTEMBER
REVOLUTION IS THE REVOLUTION OF THE NEW LEFT IN THE WORLD AND
THAT THE SMALL COUNTRIES OUGHT TO PLAY THEIR PART Utz! THE STAGE
OF EVENTS TU CONFRONT THE MAJOR POWERS' DOMINATION OF THE
SECURITY COUNCIL..
IN AN INTERVIEW GIVEN TO THE GERMAN TELEVISION SERVICE
((NUT FURTHER IDENTIFIED--FBIS)) HE SAID THAT THERE WOULD BE
NO "1INURITY IN PALESTINE, WHERE MUSLEMS,. CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
W(J!)LD COEXIST. IF THIS WAS NOT TO THE JEWS' LIKING, THEY WOULD
HAVE TO RETURN TO THE FIJRUPCAN COUNTRIES THEY CAME FROM.
IN THE INTERVIEW THE COLONEL SPOKE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF
DIALOG WITH THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES. HE POINTED OUT THAT SOCIALISM
TOOK ACCOt0n1T OF THE SPECIAL QUALITIES AND ORIGINS OF
FACH COUNTRY.
THE COLONEL EXPLAINED THE POPULAR DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT.
HF SAID THAT IT CONSISTED OF THE PEOPLE RULING THEMSELVES
THROUGH THE ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS STRATA OF
PEOPLE TO FORM A PEOPLE'S COUNCIL OF ABOUT 1,000 ONE ZERO ZERO ZERO
DFPUTIFS WHO NOMINATED THE HEAD OF STATE. HE SAID THAT THIS
EXPERIMENT DIFFERED FROM THE CAPITALIST EXPERIMENT FROM THE
ANGLE
OF LINE PARTY AND ONE CLASS RULE.
THE
COLONEL TOLD GERMAN TELEVISION
THAT
LIBYAN- GERMAN RFLATT INS
COULD
GREATLY DEVELOP IF THE GERMAN
STAND
WAS
NOT NEUTRAL.
TOWARD
THE CAUSE OF THE ARAB NATION.
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TRIPOLI ARNA IN ARABIC 1530 GMT 1.6 OCT 75 LD
((TEXT)) TRIPOLI, 16 OCT, ARNA-- CHAIPMAIV OF THE
COMMAND COUNCIL COL MU'AMMAR AL- QADHDHAFI H
POPULAR DEMOCRACY DIFFERS COMPLETELY FROM 'THE COMMUNIST AND THE
CAPITALIST SYSTEMS WHERE RULE IS IN THE HANDS OF EITHER ONE OR
SEVERAL PARTIES.
SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW WITH GERMAN TELEVISION,
COLONEL AL- QADHDHAFI SAID THAT THE LIBYAN PEOPLE EXERCISE DIRECT
AUTHORITY IN THE STATE. WE DO NUT UNDERSTAND DEMOCRACY AS THE
DOMINATION BY ONE SPECIFIC' CLASS, PARTY, OR SEVERAL PARTIES
AS IS THE CASE WITH THE COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST SYSTEMS, BUT
AS THE EXFRCISE OF POWER BY THE PEOPLE. HE ADDED: WE HAVE NO
SYSTFM OF DOMINATION BY CERTAIN PEOPLE. THIS IS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE
DIRECTLY EXERCISE AUTHORITY AND ACT.
EXPLAINING LIBYA'S EXPERIMENT. COLONEL
AL- QADHDHAFI POINTED OUT THAT THE PO?ULAR BASE CONSISTS OF
GRUIJPS OF CRAFTSMEN, VOCATIONALISTS, WORKERS, PEASANTS,
TFA''HFPS, AND STUDENTS. THESE GROUPS WILL FORM COMMITTEES OR
UNIONS THAT 4ILL IN TURN ELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO SHOULDER
RESFOMSIBILITY. A NATIONAL CONGRESS OR A GENERAL POPULAR
ASSEMBLY WILL THEN BE SUMMONED TO MEET. THE CONGRESS DR ASSEMBLY.
HE SAID, WILL CONSIST OF 1,000 ONE, ZERO ZERO ZERO PEOPLE
AND WILL HOLD ONE MEETING ANNUALLY TO DRAFT THE POLITICA). POLICY
OF THE COUNTRY AND APPOINT THE GOVERNMENT. THE PRESIDENT OF THE
ASSEMBLY WILL ALSO BE THE HEAD OF THE STATE.
IN HIS INTERVIEW, COLONEL AL- QADHDHAFI POINTED OUT THAT HE
AASUPPORTS CONTINUATION OF THE DIALOG WITH OTHER SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS.
HE ADDED: BUT I CANNOT SAY THAT THERE SHOULD BE ANY SORT OF
AGREEMENT BETWEEN ARAB SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALISTS IN
F1IROPF, BECAUSE EACH SOCIALIST MOVEMENT HAS ITS NATURAL ELEMENTS
AND NATIONAL AND POLITICAL CONDITIONS. THIS IS WHAT BINDS
THE SOCIALISTS OF ALL COUNTRIES.
REPLYING TO A QUESTION TO WHETHER FORCE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION
UPFN TO THE ARAB CAUSE AT PRESENT, COLONEL AL- QADHDHAFI SAID.,
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WE MUST BE PREPARED FUR. ALL EVENTUALITIES BECAUSE wE MIGHT BE
FACED WITH SITUATIONS IN WHICH WE HAVE NO CHOICE AS TO
WHETHER TtiEY CAN BE SOLVED WITH WORDS OR ARMS. HE ADDED THAT THE
SITUATION IN THE ARAB REGION HAS NOT CHANGED AND THAT THE
PALESTINIANS
ARE STILL WITHOUT A HOMELAND. UNTIL THE PALESTINIANS CAN RETURN
TO THEIR HOMELAND, HE SAID, THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT STRUGGLE.
AS FOR THE FUSSIBILITY OF COEXISTENCE BETWEEN ARABS AND JEWS
WITHIN A SINGLE STATE, THE COLONEL EXPLAINFI) THAT
PALESTINIANS ARE NOT SOLELY MOSLEMS. MOSLEMS, CHRISTIANS, AND
JEWS HAD MANAGED TO LIVE TOGETHER IN PALESTINE. HE ADDED:
HP WHO ;FARS LIVING WITH MOSLEMS AND CHRISTIANS SHOULD LEAVE,
COL MIJ'AMMAR AL- 9ADHDHAFI STRESSED THAT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE
WHICH LIBYA AND THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE PLAYING WITHIN
THE UN FRAMEWORK MUST NUT BE BELITTLED. HE CRITICIZED THE RIGHT
OF VETO THAT
ONLY
THE
GREAT POWERS ENJOY, A RIGHT THAT IMPEDES
THE WORK OF
THE
UN
SECURITY COUNCIL AND DETRACTS FROM THE ROLE THE
SMALL STATES
PLAY
IN
THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
CUMMENTIN(: ON THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT PROPOSED BY
COLONEL AL- QADHJHAFI, THE GERMAN TV C0!'RESPONDENT WONDERED:
WILL THE PEOPLES HEED THE VOICE FROM THE DESERT, THE VOICE OF
QADHDHAFI CALLINI, FUR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARAB SOCIALISM?
THE CORRESPONDENT ADDED THAT LIBYA, WHICH IS IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF
ITS REVOLUTION, HAS BECOME A CENTER FOR ISLAMIC AND ARAB
INNOVATION AND THAT THE LIBYAN PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THE BEST POSSIBLE
UWAY NOW THAT THEY ARE IN CONTROL OF THEIR COUNTRY'S OIL AND UTHER
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