18 March 2010
PARIS — Arab League interior ministers have asked Swiss authorities to end a travel ban on 188 Libyans and their families, including Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Wednesday’s meeting in Tunis expressed solidarity with Libya in its dispute with Switzerland, which also has affected most of Europe as a result of retaliatory travel sanctions from Tripoli.
Switzerland is a member of the Schengen zone of open borders, so the ban means the Libyans can’t travel to any of the 25 countries in the group.
The dispute arose over the 2008 arrest of Gadhafi’s son Hannibal in Geneva on suspicion of beating servants in a luxury hotel.
Libyan Interior Minister Abdelfattah Younes Laabodo said the dispute will be discussed at a March 27-28 Arab summit in Libya.
Source: Khaleej Times.
Link: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/March/middleeast_March388.xml§ion=middleeast&col=.
PARIS — Arab League interior ministers have asked Swiss authorities to end a travel ban on 188 Libyans and their families, including Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Wednesday’s meeting in Tunis expressed solidarity with Libya in its dispute with Switzerland, which also has affected most of Europe as a result of retaliatory travel sanctions from Tripoli.
Switzerland is a member of the Schengen zone of open borders, so the ban means the Libyans can’t travel to any of the 25 countries in the group.
The dispute arose over the 2008 arrest of Gadhafi’s son Hannibal in Geneva on suspicion of beating servants in a luxury hotel.
Libyan Interior Minister Abdelfattah Younes Laabodo said the dispute will be discussed at a March 27-28 Arab summit in Libya.
Source: Khaleej Times.
Link: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/March/middleeast_March388.xml§ion=middleeast&col=.
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