Col. Kadhafi calls for the United States of Africa
By Ibrahim Dagash
Guest Writer, PANA
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Libyan leader, Col. Moammar
Kadhafi has strongly defended the rationale for the emerging
African Union, calling upon the institution to urgently move the
continent forward to the United States of Africa, a source within
the closed-door session of the 37th OAU summit revealed to
PANA.
Addressing the meeting, Tuesday night, Kadhafi took nearly
forty minutes to elaborate on his vision for the future of the
Africa Union and urged his African peers to work for its success.
The source stated that the Libyan leader had been critical
of the Constitutive Act which establishes the African Union,
saying that it does not sufficiently cater for the process of
relinquishing the sovereignty of states to the African Union.
The Constitutive Act "must be subjected to further
amendments" that would "strengthen the administrative organ", the
source quoted Kadhafi to have said.
He had also criticized the importance the summit accorded
"the marginal issue" of the election of the Secretary General,
the sources added.
The source said Kadhafi traced the objectives the African
Union is bound to attain as well as the stages it should take in
order to reach the ultimate goal which is the complete
integration of the continent.
Such broad integration, it said, would eventually lead to
the emergence of the United States of Africa.
The very source told PANA that Kadhafi had said in no
ambiguous terms that the African Union should from the outset
be clear on the objectives of unity and solidarity within whose
context, all boundaries in Africa would gradually vanish,
check-point at borders dismantled, commercial and economic
undertakings permitted, and wealth distributed with equity.
The Libyan leader, according to the source, vigorously
advocated the creation of a common well-equipped African
army whose sole responsibility would be to defend the United
states of Africa.
Kadhafi suggested that this would follow the amalgamation of
all the disciplined forces in every African country.
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Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi delivering his speech during the closing ceremony of the 37 th OAU Summit in Luzaka, Zambia.
