ARNA CARRIES REPORT OF AL-QADHDHAFI'S SPEECH

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 30, 1976
• Content Type: CABLE

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ARNA CARRIES REPORT OF AL-.DADHDHAFI'S SPEECH
LD301120YI REF L0301044 (ADVANCE FYI)
REF JN300853Y (TRIPOLI VOICE OF ARAB HOMELAND IN ARABIC
292340-mLIBYA'S AL-QADHDHAFI COMMENTS ON DECLARATION OF PEOPLEIS
POWER)
TAKE 1 OF 2.. ALmQADHDHAFi SPEECH
TRIPOLI ARNA IN ENGLISH 6926 GMT 30 DEC 76 LD
((TEXT)) TRIPOLI, LAR; DECEMBER 30, ARNAq--COL: MU',AMMAR
AL-QADHDHAFI MADE A VERY IMPORTANT AND HISTORICAL TELEV2SED
SPEECH, LAST NIGHT GN THE FORTHCOMING DISCUSStON BY fiHE LIBYAN
PEOPLE OF THE DRAFT DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
PEOPLE'S AUTHORITY, WHICH WILL GO DOWN IN HISTbRY AS THE GREATEST
AND MOST SERIOUS EXPERIMENT BY HUMAINTY IN ITS LONG SEARCH FOR
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIRECT AND SOUND DEMOCRACY.
COL'. AL-QADHDHAFI CALLED ON ACL LIBYANS, MACE AND FEMALE, TO
GIVE THIS EXTREMELY SERIOUS MATTER THEIR FULLEST ATTENTPON
AND PARTICIPATION, AND ANNOUNCED THAT THE PEOPLES CONGRESSES
ARE TO BEGIN DEBATING THE DRAFT DECLARATION AS OF JANUARY 1ST,
19771 SO THAT IT MAY BE RIVEN THE FINAL DRAFT AT THE EX!RAOR?INARY
SESSION OF THE PEOPLES GENERAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT THE
FORTHCOMING BIRTHDAY OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD ON OR ABOUT. MARCH
3RD, 19778
IN ORDER THAT ALL LIBYANS WILL HAVE A,CHANCE TO_FULL~
PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION OF THE DRAFT DECLARATION, ICE
ENVISAGED THAT THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESSES WILL CONTINUE IN SESSION
UNTIL END OF NEXT FEBRUARY WITH EACH PEOPLEIS CONGRESS MEETING
IN DISTRICTS, SUBURBS, TPOOSANDS
OR HUNDREDS AS DEEMED SUITABLE,
TO ALLOW FOR A THOROUGH AND FULL PARTICIPATION BY EVERY LIBYAN
CITIZEN, SINCE WHAT IS AT STAKE IS TOO SERIOUS TO BE DISCUSSED
BY EVERY BODY IN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
COL. AL-QADHDHAFI ASSERTED THAT DISCUSSIONS WILL BE ABSOLUTELY
OPEN AND FREE WITH NO RESTRICTIONS OF ANY KIND ON tHE WILL
OF THE LIBYAN MEN AND WOMEN, TO ESTABLISH THEIR AUTHORITY.
REVIEWING THE MAIN POINTS OF THE DRAFT DECLARATION OP THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE'IS AUTHORITY, CDC: AC QADHDHAFI FIRST
TOUCHED ON THE PREAMBLE (~HICI WILL ALSO INCC'UI]E THE NEW NAME
OF THE REPUBLIC.
HE SAID THE PREAMBLE, WHICH CONSTITUTES AN INTEGRAL FART
OF THE DECLARATION AND OF OUR HERITAGE, WILL BE DEBATED BY THE
PEOPLE'S CONGRESSES WHICH CAN ADD TO OR DELETE FROM IT WbAT"THEY
SEE FIT, SINCE IT WILL B6 A HISTORICAL PREFACE WHICH WILL
ANNOUNCE TO THE WORLD THE USHERING OF THE ERA OF TOE MASSES
AND THE BEGINNING OF THE IMPrINENTATION OF. TIdE THIRD IN!1'.ERNATIONA,L
THEORY, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE SUCCESS OF THIRD ROAD,.AND THE
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OF ALL TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIPS.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI OUTLINED THE MAIN TOPICS OF THE FORTHCOMING
DISCUSSIONS BY THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AS FOLLQwS
1-THE PREAMBLE AND THE NEW NAME OF THE REPUBLIC,
2--THE SOCIETY'S CODE WHICH HAS BEEN [DECIDED BY T'WE LAST
SESSIONS OF THE PEOPLES CONGRESS TO BE THE HOLY KORAN.
3--THE MANNER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE'tS AUTHORITY
AND THE DIRECT PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI EMPHASISED THAT THE NEW NAME OF THE
REPUBLIC SHOULD REFLECT THE NEW REALITY AND SAID THAT ',AFTER-THE
REVOLUTION WE DID NOT USE SUCH NAMES AS ARBITRARILY ADOETED IN
THE EAST OR WEST BUT MERELY ANNOUNCED THE LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC
BECAUSE THE COUNTRY BECAME A REPUBLIC AFTER ToPPCING THE MONARCHY
AND IT IS AN ARAB AND A LIBYAN COUNTRY, BUT NOW THERE AqE NEW
APPLICATIONS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN DETERMINING THE
NEW NAME OF THE REPUBLIC; WHICH, IF THE PEOPCEp'S AUTHORITY IS
ESTABLISHED, BECOMES A REAL PEOPLES REPUBLIC, ?IF A SOCIALIST
DOCTRINE IS ESTABLISHEDI THEN IT IS A SOCIALIST REPUBLIE; THUS
THE NAME HAS A GREAT SIGNIFICANCE AND MUST REFLECT THE REALITY*."
"IF THE SO.CIETY'S CODE IS TO BE THE HOLY KORAN AS DEEiDED
PREVIOUSLY," COLONEL AL'?ADHDHAFI WENT ON "THEN THE CONSEQUENCES
MUST BE DISCUSSED, FOR THEN THERE WILL BE NO MORE A CONSTITUTIONAL
DECLARATION NOR A MAN-MAPLE CONSTITUTION, BUT-THERE WILL BE
ONLY LAWS BASED ON THE KORAN."
ELABORATING ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PEOPLE'IS
AUTHORITY, COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI EXPLAINED THAT THE MASSES WILL
STUDY THE MANNER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS AUTHORiTY'i ITS
PILLARS AND HOW WILL THE PEOPLE PRACTISE IT. HE ADDED MOAT WHEN
THE PEOPLE EXERCISE THE AUTHORITY THROUGP THE PEOPLES C NGRESSES,
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES, TRADE UNIONS AND ULTIMATELY, iN THE PEOPLE'S
GENERAL CONGRESS THERE WILL RE NO REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL,;
NOR MU'AMMAR AL,QADHDHAFi,.SiNCE THE PRESENCE pF A PRES'TbENTA
COUNCIL, PARTY, SECT OF A FAMILY IS IN DIRECT CONTRAOIC,110N
WITH THE PEOPLES AUTHORITY, WHICH MEANS THE END OF GOVERNMENTS,
RULERS AND PRESIDENTS.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI ADDED, "THISDOES' NOT MEAN 4NARCky
SINCE THE PEOPLE'tS AUTHORITY; WHICH IS TIlE NEW FACTOR IN THE
EXPERIMENT, IS BASED ON THE PEOPLE'S CON'G'RESSES AND PEOELES
COMMITTEES AS WELL AS TRADE UNIONS AND THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL
CONGRESS."
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI DECLARED THAT THE INSTITUTION OP'THE
CALIPH WAS SUGGESTED AND EXPLAINED THAT A CALIPH COULD QE A
DICTATOR, AND IF HE WERE AN IDEAL RULER, WHO CAN GUARANTEE
HIS SUCCESSOR? AND THUS THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRACY REMAitS
UNSOLVED BUT ON THE OTHER HAND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE`S
AUTHORITY LEAVES NO ROOM TO ANY ONE TO SEIZE POWER AND It
PUTS A FINAL AND HISTORICAL END TO SUCH A POSSIBILITY.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI ASSERTED THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE'S
CONGRESS WILL NOT BE THE HEAD OF THE STATE NOR THE PEOPLE'S
PRESIDENT, FOR THE PEOPLE WILL BE THE RULERS WHILE TFIE LHAIRMAN
OF THE CONGRESS WILL BE APPOTNTED BY THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL CONGRESS
TO PRESIDE OVER ITS SESSIONS AND DIRECT ITS SECRETARIAT AND
SIGN THE LAWS BY ORDER OF THE CONGRESS AFTER THE PEOPL.E.LS
CONGRESSES HAVE DECIDED ?NTAESE LAWS IN THE FORM OF
RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE EEOPLE'S
GENERAL CONGRESS FOR FINAL DRAFTING WHICH WILL CONSTITUTE THE
ESSENCE OF THE LAWS AND WHICH THE SECRETARIAT WILL PROMUCGATE
AS LAWS AND RESOLUTION; AND THUS THE DUTY OF THE CONGRESS
CHAIRMAN BECOMES PURELY ADMINISTRATIVE AND CONCERNS THE CONGRESS
ITSELF, WHILE THE PEOPLE ARE THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY. 300926
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TRIPOLI ARNA IN ENGLISH 30096 XXX OF THE COUNTRY.,
((TEXT)) HE SAID THAT THE CONGRESS WILL SELECT THE SECRETARIAT
WHICH WILL REPLACE THE C?UNCIL OF MINISTERS, AND THE SECRETARY
GENERAL WHO WILL REPLACE THE PRIME MINISTER,,AND Sp THESE WILL BE
NO GOVERNMENT OTHER THAN THE PEOPLEIS AUTHORITY REPLACW THE
GOVERNMENT AND ALL ITS INSTITUTIONS.
THE REVOLUTION LEADER SAID THAT THE DUTIES OF TPIS SECRETARIAT
WILL CONSTITUTE THE RUNNING, UNDER THE CHARGE OF THE CONGRESS,
OF THE VARIOUS SECTORS HANDLED BY THE MINISTERS AT PRESENT, SUCH
AS THE SECRETARIAT OF DEFENCE AND INTERI?R, INSTEAp OF THE
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR, RESPECTIVELY,
FOR EXAMPLE.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI SAID THE SECRETARIATS OF THECOWGRESS
WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POLICIES IN ACC THEIR FORMS BY THE PEOPLES
BASIC CONGRESSES WHICH WILL DETERMINE THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF
EVERY SECTOR.
UPON SUCH ANALYSIS AND DEBATES IN, THE PEOPLEIS CONGRESSES
AND, IN EFFECT, BY THE ENTIRE PEOPLE, THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE
PEOPLEIS CONGRESSES WILL BE PASSED TO THE PEOPCEISG*ENERAL
CONGRESS UPON WHICH IT WILL DECIDE ANY CAANGE OR ALTERAh',!ON IN
THE COMPOSITION OF THE SECRETARIAT AND EXAMINE THE ACCOUNTABILITY
OF THE SECRETARY AND OR HIS DISCHARGE.
THE REVOLUTION LEADER SPOKE OF THE PEOPLE`Is' OWNERSHI2 OF
AUTHORITY, WEALTH AND ARMS WHICH WILL ACHIEVE THE NEW SOCIALISM
AND WHICH WILL NOT BE THE OWNERSHIP OF A CLASS, GOVERNMENT, SECT,
OR A PARTY,
HE ALSO DISCUSSED THE DEFENCE OF THE COUNTRY AND FURTWER
EXPLAINED THE GENERAL MILITARY TRAINING TO REPLACE VOLUNTARY
MILITARY SERVICE, SINCE THE FEW SHOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE TO
DEFEND THE WHOLE AND TO REPLACE THE COMPULSORY..CONSCRIPf ON
WHICH IS FOR SLAVES AND NOT FOR A PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THEIR AASOLUTE AUTHORITY.
CONCERNING THE BUDGET; COLONEL AL-QADNDHAFI SAID THE PEOPLE4:S
CONGRESSES WILL DISCUSS THE BUDGET AND FORWARD THE OUTCOME TO
THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL CONGRESS, WHICH WILL, IN'TURNJ ENTRUST
THE SECRETARIAT TO PUT IT INTO A LEGAL FORM AND LEGAL ARTICLES
TO BE SIGNED BY THE CONGRESS CHAIRMAN ANr THUS HAVING A BUDGET
INITIATED AND ESTABLISHED BY THE PEOPLE.
REFERRING TO THE LAST PEOPLE'IS GENERAL CONGRESSI ADHERENCE-T9
COLONEL AL^QADHDHAFI AND R.C:C. MEMBERS, HE SAID THESE ARE
PRESENT ON TEMPORARY BASIS AND WILL NOT REMAIN IN POLIT~CS FOR
EVER AND AS MORTALS THEY SURELY WILL DISAPPEAR IN A CER!t'AIN
PERIOD OF TIME WHICH CANNOT BE COMPARED WITH-THE AGE OF THE
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PEOPLE UK HUMANITY.
IF THE R.C.C. REMA ED THERE WILL BE PQ MEANIVOR NECESSITY
FOR THE PEOPLE'S CONGRESSES, PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES; TRADE UNIONS
NOR THE PEOPLE'S GENERAL CONGRESS, WHEREBY THE.R.C.C'. W1IICL HAVE
ABSOLUTE LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWERS WHICH IS A CONTRADICTION
TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S AUTNORIt ,WHICH IN-TURN IS
INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF A COUNCIL, PRESiDENT~' PARTY,
CLASS, FAMILY, ASSOCIATION' SECT, TRIBE OR A PARIIAMPNT:
ALL THESE REPRESENTING C AS RECEIVED)) FORMS of THR PREVAILING
DICTATORSHIPS WHICH THE LIBYAN PEOPLE DECIDED to RIDE'TNEMSECVES
OF. BUTT INDIVIDUALLY; MEMBERS OF THE R.C.C. ARE STALL LIBYAN
CITIZENS AND THEY ARE UNiER THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIBYAN OEOPLE
WHO ARE FREE TO PLACE THEM IN ANY POSITION OF SECRETARIAT AND
BENEFIT FROM THEIR SERVICES.
COLONEL AL-QADHDHAFI CONCLUDED BY REITERATING ONCE MORE THAT
ALL LIBYAN MEN AND WOMEN MUST. FULLY PARTICIP~A'TE IN,,DECIO NG
THEIR DESTINY AND TO BE +IGNGTORIES TO TFdIS IdTSTORiC, DECLARATION
AND SAID THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S A'UTHORiTY MEANS
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOCIETY FREE FROM THE POLSTICAL MALADIES
WITH NOTHING SUBJECT TO CONFLICT',
THE CONFLICT AND STRUGGLE OVER POWER fHAT EXISTS TN OTHER
SOCIETIES STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT ONLY A PART OF THE SODIETY IS
IN POWER WHICH AUTOMATICALLY CREATES OTHER OPPOSTING PARTS OF THAT
SOCIETY STRIVE, CONSPIRE AND STRUGGLE TO SEIZE POWER AND KEEP
SUCH CONFLICT WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS THE POWER REMAINS'THE
MONOPOLY OF A PARTY,r INDIVIDUAL, COUNCIL, SECT OR A TRIBE.
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