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The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya has rejected what it considered an attempt by the Union for the Mediterranean to divide Africa.

In a position statement, Libya said the proposal by the European countries along the Mediterranean Sea that all European countries should be part of the Union for the Mediterranean and northern African countries is intended to divide Africa, which it rejects.

The statement: “The Great Jamahiriya for her part rejects this last idea because she is part of Africa and would not accept its division under any designation and would not deal with European Union States unless within the cooperation frames agreed between the African Union and the European Union.”

The statement said Libya is committed to the African Summit resolution numbers 107 and 130 in which leaders of Africa affirmed that Africa is one and as such, Libya would not accept any division or partition or attach part of it to any other space or continent.

Libya, in the statement said the first proposal of France’s President, Nicolas Sarkozy in which he proposed the Union of the African and European Countries that bordering the Mediterranean Sea was backed by it.

But said the Europeans in return, rejected this proposal on ground that it would divide their union states and in addition to this, they decided that all of their States enter a union for the Mediterranean including countries from North Africa.

This latest development, Libya said, is unacceptable; therefore, it will not support such.

Libya, in the statement said, “the concept of United Africa means all Africa from north to south and from east to west; and to abstain from any agreements that embody the continent’s partition; the reason behind this position is the Great Jamahiriya is conscious that the aforementioned union will divide the African Continent to North-Saharan and Sub-Saharan, white Africa and black Africa and will take part of African territory to be under its authority and supremacy.”