/ 20 December 1999

GADAFFI MEETS KABILA FOR TALKS

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has met Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Tunis for talks on ways to restore peace in Africa’s Great Lakes region, Libyan state television reported. Gaddafi and Kabila met in Tripoli on Sunday night to discuss mechanisms to implement a peace accord concluded earlier this year between Kabila’s government and rebels.