Excerpts: Libya/Switzerland.Jordan/UK 25 July 2008

+++JORDAN TIMES 26 July '08:"Libya halts oil shipments to Switzerland -
workers",Reuters
QUOTE:"These major steps ... will have no end' "

EXCERPTS:TRIPOLI (Reuters) - OPEC member Libya is halting oil shipments to
Switzerland in protest at the arrest of a son of Libyan leader Muammar
Qadhafi,... .All ships carrying Swiss-made goods are barred from unloading
their cargoes at Libyan ports .. . .The Swiss Customs Office said oil
imports from Libya made up 80 per cent of all Swiss oil imports in the first
six months of 2008 in terms of volume, and for 50 per cent last
year....Libya's state-owned Tamoil company owns a 72,000bpd refinery at
Collombey in Switzerland as well as a network of petrol stations in the
country.
Qadhafi, who is a senior official of the maritime corporation, was released
on bail in Geneva after he and his wife were charged with ill-treatment of
two domestic employees.
Qadhafi denied the charges, his lawyer has said.

. . .
"These major steps against those full of hatred among the Swiss police and
government will have a beginning, but will have no end." The Revolutionary
Committees Movement, a group of Qadhafi followers who help to manage the
Libyan leader's Jamahiriyah or state of the masses political system, have
said Libya should withdraw deposits in Swiss banks if the Swiss government
fails to apologise for the arrest of Hannibal Qadhafi.
In Berne, the Swiss foreign ministry said on 24 July it had sent a
delegation to the north African oil-exporting country with information about
the arrest of Hannibal Qadhafi "to prevent a crisis between the two
countries." The ministry said Libya had suspended the issuing of visas for
Swiss nationals and Swiss companies in Libya had received orders to close,
and some company offices had been sealed.. . .

+++JORDAN TIMES 26 July '08:"British government strongly rejects so-called
'Jordan option' - spokesperson" By Hani Hazaimeh
QUOTE:" 'We don't see any other solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
but ...Jerusalem serving as the capital of the two states' "

EXCERPTS:AMMAN - The United Kingdom and the international community will not
accept a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that comes at the
expense of Jordan or any other country, UK government spokesperson, Jon
Wilks, said on 25 July.
"We don't see any other solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but a
two-state solution based on the 1967 border with Jerusalem serving as the
capital of the two states," Wilks said in a press conference in Amman
yesterday, where he stressed that the British government strongly rejects
the so-called "Jordan option".. . . .
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Sue Lerner - Associate, IMRA