PIDATO LEADER PADA TGL 1 SEPTEMBER 2008 (BAG. 2)

Bagian : 2

Text of the Leader's speech in the grand festive session of the General People's Committee marking the 39th anniversary of Great al-Fateh Revolution Sunday night in Benghazi

Benghazi, 1.09.2008 - Jana

In this treaty Italy pledges - of course when it is approved by Italian Parliament and by Libyan People's Congresses , it becomes effective- to pay a quarter of a billion Dollars yearly for 20 years to come .
In other words, Italy for 20 years will pay the Libyan people a quarter billion every year > this is a good thing, if a poor country it is very important , but for us we are not interested in the material aspect, but what is important for us is to apply the new rule and that is colonialism must compensate the colonized peoples.
For 20 years Italy will carry out projects by building hundreds of houses at its expense in the areas destroyed by mines and by granting undergraduate and graduate scholarships for ( 100 ) Libyan students, renewable every time students finish their studies another ( 100 ) students will be sent instead and all these scholarships are funded by Italy.
Then, Libyans that can not be treated at the hospital that Italy Built in Benghazi for transplant and rehabilitation of the disabled as a result of mines and which was funded by Italy and which came as part of the declaration done in 98 that Italy builds a Medical Center in Benghazi for transplanting parts cut by mines - So those who can not be treated at the center in Benghazi are to be transferred to Italy for treatment at Italy's expense .




Then it will resume paying pensions to worthy Libyans, civilians, military and worthy heirs in conformity with the Italian regulations.
We told them the Libyan who fought alongside the Italians in the Italian military and recruited them by force, making them fight in Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, have the right to retirement, you turned them into Italian soldiers...so how can you abandon them?
How can guarantee the thing we put forth in the treaty, they will resume paying salaries to heirs, because certainly they are not alive.
Then returning the manuscripts and antiquities, which we said they looted from Libya and taken it to Italy, no one talked about it until now, after the revolution we began talking after opening this file, the antiquities taken by the Italians, we asked about them.
In 1999, when D'Alema was Italy's prime minister, he returned a statue the whole world knew, the ordinary individual wouldn't its value, but the world, universities and archeologists knew know the goddess of beauty "Venus", he delivered it to us in a special cargo plane and it put in the museum.
Of course we were supposed to celebrate this, but for the Libyans "well it came and that's it".

Now, when our friend Berlusconi came yesterday he brought another very important statue "The Venus of Cyrene", which they took around 1936 and before that in 1913 they took Venus the goddess of beauty.
------Interposition: the Secretary of the GPC for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation.
"They found it in Cyrene in 1913, but they didn't immediately take it to Italy, because they found it broken, they left for a while...just as you said, it's regarded the institutions of the art of the Romans, Greeks and Phoenicians...and leader, now it's priceless.
***The Leader:
Berlusconi brought with him this famous statue "The Venus of Cyrene", which they took around 1935, it was discovered about 1800 years ago...about 1800 it was discovered off the shores of Cyrene, after taking it out of the sea it was then taken to Italy around 1935, the Libya didn't saying anything.
A right no one asking for it...no one demanded it, now, we told them where is Venus the goddess of love and beauty that was in Cyrene? they said that they have taken it in 1913, and we told them bring it back, they replied sorry the Italian governor presented it to the German military commander, since Germany helped Italy during the war, and he was rewarded with the great statue, we said we do not recognize this, whether you've given it to Germany or Mars, we want the statue, they went to Germany and returned the statue...the Venus statue, it was returned when D'Alema was the prime minister.
"The Venus of Cyrene" came yesterday, and will be put in the Libyan museum.
The pact says "returning manuscripts and antiquities that were taken from Libya to Italy during the colonial period, the joint committee points out the manuscripts and antiquities that will be the subject of legal procedures for returning them.



The pact says "Both countries mutually express will to continue cooperating on the mean to reach an agreement regarding the Libyan citizens who were forcefully exiled from Libya during the colonial period, with the determination to close this painful file for which in the joint declaration of 1998 Italy expressed regret for the pain it cause to the Libyan people.
Affirm a firm will to build the stage of bilateral relations that is based on mutual respect, equality, complete cooperation and relation as equals".
This is the backbone of the pact, the material compensation is ion this form, and the moral compensation is what's important.



And I think our friend Berlusconi is a serious and sincere to Italy and the friendship between the two countries, he plays an important role...on the international arena, he's a distinguish figure, he has majority in the Italian parliament, and surely the Italian parliament would approve what the prime minister signed yesterday.
The world would say, as long as we saw the Italian Prime Minister shaking hands and kissing the son of Omar Al-Mukhtar, a new era must have actually began.
Anyway, this is a precedent n the international law, international relations and the world history.
No one imagined that a colonial country would apologize or compensate people they colonized, but now it has become a precedent thanks to the Libyan people and their revolutionists.
And after the Italian parliament and the Libyan people's congresses approve the pact, relations between the countries would go into a new stage, we will forget the abhorrent past and the colonial generations that made this detested past.

I think Libya would benefit from this.
Of course Italy is benefiting from Libyan gas and oil, its companies will begin working and getting projects in Libya, it will have the priority as it is a friendly country.
However, at the same time there are issues in the pact concerning the conveying technology from Italy to Libya, and teaching Libyans technology in Italy so they would bring it back to Libya.
I think we've done a lot of things in this area there is no time to read them out, that is Libya will link itself with one of the eight major industrial European country, and a friendly country.
I think after approving this pact, we can set forward to strengthen relations with Italy...relation of the equal and mutual respect.
Both sides are committed to the pact, respecting one another, an no aggression starts from one country to another.
We will begin building beneficial relations with a country such as Italy, I promised this, we will benefit from the economic and technological point of view, even from on the political aspect, we will have a friend in Nato, the EU, the Mediterranean and the 5+5.
This is a great benefit...a moral gain...political and moral gain, we would benefit from it for a long time.




you know the file with America has been finally closed, problems, issues and compensations have ended, we thank the Arab countries, Qatar and Emirates, which help resolve the problem.
The file with France has been closed, the relation with France now is excellent, friendship and cooperation.
And with the support of our brothers in Qatar and Emirates, the file with America has been closed, I think the file has been finally closed and we have a relation of friendship.
Even without friendship, we neither want friendship nor animosity with America, they should just leave us alone.
It's not important that we present ourselves as America's friends...this is insignificant, the important think is to have a relation without animosity, terrorism, war and airstrikes.
They accuse us of bombing, terrorize them and threatening their interests in the world, we did this and killed dozens of Americans, that we instigated the world and supported the revolutionaries in the world against America.
They think we're like this, that Libya is behind any threat against American interest in the world, they accuse us of this.
Consequently, they tell us "Why do you angry when we attack you, when we punish at the Security Council, when we impose sanctions against you, instigate the world you, put on the list of terrorism sponsoring states, because you begun, you destroyed American ships and planes and killed hundreds of Americans, and you attacked us in different places".
This is what the Americans say...we are oppressed - you attacked us - America said it is innocent - we the Americans are oppressed, we're kind people, you attacked us in Rome, in Berlin, in Oceans, at our home land and everywhere on land sea and air, you Libyan killed hundreds of Americans, we should retaliate".