The brother leader of the revolution has expressed appreciation and gratitude to the world leaders who responded to his call to postpone any decision on the issue of enlarging the Security Council. This request came in the message sent to them on 29 August 2005 ahead of the ongoing 60th session of the UN General Assembly.
In a statement he gave this evening to the international media correspondents based in the Great Jamahiriyah he said: (Muammar Al-Qadhafi - recording) I would like through you, the correspondents of the news agencies, radios, TVs and press based in the Jamahiriyah to express thanks, appreciation and gratitude to the world leaders who listened to my call and responded to my request.
I sent a message to them before the UN General Assembly convened in which I asked them to postpone issuing any decision regarding the enlargement of the Security Council.
I pointed out that the issue should be postponed in order for the world to discuss it, spend enough time looking into it and exchanging views over it. That is because the issue is very important and serious. It concerns all the peoples of the world and it is not helpful to decide on it in such haste, as there was a tendency within the General Assembly in its 60th session to issue decisions regarding the enlargement of the Security Council. The time was not sufficient to examine such an important and fundamental issue.
They actually responded to the request I made to all world leaders. Thanks and appreciation are due to them because they have postponed taking a decision on this issue and left it for in-depth study.
At the end of the message I said to them: (Al-Qadhafi starts reading part of the letter) As the issue is extremely serious and relates to the fate of the world during war and peace, it is imperative to postpone taking any decision regarding the proposals presented to the forthcoming 60th session of the UN General Assembly. The issue is very serious and deserves more than a year of study and discussion, as well as the obtaining of the viewpoints of the entire world population on a matter which concerns them and nobody else. This letter relies on Article 109 of the UN Charter. Thank you.
Source: Tripoli Great Jamahiriyah TV in Arabic -- state-run television
