March 2, 2002	Saturday	Zilhaj 17, 1422

TRIPOLI, March 1: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi will reveal on Saturday the details of a Middle East peace proposal he made at last year’s Arab summit in Amman but which were never disclosed, the official JANA news agency said.

Qadhafi “will announce to the world on Saturday the summary of his ‘white paper,’ which contains the proposal made to Arab leaders during the summit in Amman” last March, JANA said on Friday, without elaborating.

After the closed-door session the summit appointed a special commission to review Qadhafi’s proposals, comprising the foreign ministers of Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Tunisia, as well as Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa and a representative of the Palestinian Authority.

At the time, an Arab diplomatic source said Qadhafi was proposing Arab recognition of Israel and a normalization of relations on the basis of three conditions.

These were the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes in what is now Israel, with compensation; a settlement of the Jerusalem problem and Israel giving up its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Libya’s “jamahiriya.”—AFP