Still Angry Over Treatment of His Son, Gaddafi Wants Switzerland Abolished
(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of his first visit ever to the United Nations, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has signaled how he expects to be treated in the international community by calling for the dismemberment of Switzerland.
The tiny alpine country is the latest to be burned in its dealings with Libya, after a humiliating apology to Gaddafi over a diplomatic incident involving one of his sons failed to end a 13 month-old bilateral dispute.
Two weeks after Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz went to Tripoli to apologize for the arrest of Motassim Bilal (aka “Hannibalâ€) Gaddafi and his wife last summer, the Libyan ruler has still not kept his pledge to allow two Swiss businessmen held hostage since the incident to return home.
With Merz under fire at home for his handling of the episode, Gaddafi has added to his discomfort by planning to use his visit to the U.N. to promote the view that Switzerland be abolished, with its territory parceled out to neighboring France, Germany and Italy.
Although the proposal will get no traction – a U.N. spokesman said it would not be on the agenda for the General Assembly session – it adds to a pattern of unconventional behavior by the former pariah even as he seeks to enhance his global stature.
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