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Posted on 09/10/2001 7:29:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Libya is reported to have offered to buy all the bananas produced in the Caribbean region at above market prices.
Caribbean officials say the proposal was made by the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, when he hosted a controversial visit to Tripoli just over a week ago by the prime ministers of several Caribbean islands.
The three leaders who made the trip - from St Vincent, Grenada and Dominica - have confirmed that the Libyan Government has promised them a $21m package of grants and loans.
A Libyan delegation is due to arrive in the Caribbean later this month to make arrangements.
It has also emerged, by way of representatives sent by St Lucia and Antigua, that Colonel Gaddafi has offered to buy up the total production of Caribbean bananas at above market price.
This is to enable the banana-producing islands to break free from what the colonel is said to have described as the economic stranglehold of Europe and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Support for Africa
The Caribbean leaders went to Libya to take part in celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1969 revolution that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power.
The prime ministers of St Lucia and Antigua pulled out of the trip at the last moment, reportedly in response to pressure from a bemused US State Department.
It is not entirely clear whether Colonel Gaddafi's banana offer will become a reality or indeed what his thinking is in offering it.
It is by no means the first apparently philanthropic gesture that he has made recently.
In the last two years, Libya has been bankrolling a range of impoverished countries in the African Sahara and has begun supplying petroleum to fuel-starved Zimbabwe at knock-down prices.
it illustrates the corruption of the un, and is yet another reason for the usa to get out of it.
Yet another banana thread in FR!?
What can it all mean?
(Gaddafi's just plain nuts so who knows what he's thinking. But what are we thinking?! )
Mark W. (Has anyone ever put together the utlimate FR thread? What would be in it? Bananas, tin foil, Anna Kournikova, fierce otters...)
No, I believe he has gone bananas
Wait until your family can't find white onions, or some food staple because another country has bought the entire seasons worth of growth from a corporate farm.
We need out of the U.N. yesterday, and tomorrow is not soon enough.
He made the offer to buy the bananas on a Sunday... Mark W.
Might as well toss Robert Mugabe in with the mix.
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We're going out of business and our prices are INSANE!
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