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YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
IT
GIVES US GREAT PLEASURE TO welcome you and to RECEIVE THE LETTERS OF
CREDENCE BY WHICH HIS EXCELLENCY, COLONEL MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI, ACCREDITS YOU
AS THE SECRETARY OF THE LIBYAN PEOPLE’S BUREAU OF THE GREAT SOCIALIST
PEOPLE’S LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA TO OUR COURT.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
WE
WELCOME WITH
APPRECIATION PERSONAL GREETINGS
YOU HAVE
BROUGHT FROM
the leader
of the
great alfateh revolution,
his excellency
colonel muammar
al-gaddafi,
AND BY THE SAME TOKEN, PLEASE TAKE BACK FROM US OUR FRATERNAL GREETINGS TO
HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF lIbYa.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
YOUR
PRESENCE HERE TODAY SIGNIFIES YOUR GOVERNMENT’S COMMITMENT TO MAINTAIN AND
ENHANCE THE BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY WHICH EXIST BETWEEN OUR
COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES. SINCE
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN LESOTHO AND lIbYa, LESOTHO
HAS BENEFITTED GREATLY FROM lIbYa’s SUPPORT, PARTICULARLY in THE TRAINING
of our LESOTHO DEFENCE FORCE officers and provision of tractors SO AS TO
ENHANCE OUR
FOOD PRODUCTION.
WE CANNOT BUT REITERATE OUR
DEEP GRATITUDE
TO the
government of libya
for these
forms of
support. INDEED,
MANY of our
army personnel
WHO HAVE
received training
are
imparting their ACQUIRED skills to their fellow officerS.
WE ARE EQUALLY appreciative of your COUNTRY’S COMMITMENT
TOWARDS THE
PROMOTION OF
ECONOMIC AND TRADE COOPERATION BETWEEN LESOTHO AND LIBYA as
DEMONSTRATED BY THE INVESTMENT PROMOTION MISSIONS THAT VISITED OUR COUNTRY
IN 2000 AND 2001 respectively.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY WILL RECALL THAT THE TRADE PROMOTION MISSIONS MET AND HELD
DISCUSSIONS WITH VARIOUS GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES, PARA-STATALS AND THE PRIVATE
SECTOR. IT IS THEREFORE,
INCUMBENT UPON OUR two countries TO maintain the momentum GENERATED BY those
discussions so that TANGIBLE AND FRUITFUL benefits CAN BE REALISED.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
A
SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO
COUNTRIES
WAS REACHED
IN 2000
WHEN MY
PRIME MINISTER, Mr. MosisIli VISITED Libya.
The establishment of a Libyan peoples’ bureau here in Maseru and
the opening of a resident Lesotho Mission in Tripoli were the logical
consequences of
that visit. INTERNATIONAL
EXCHANGE
VISITS,
PARTICULARLY AT HIGH LEVELS BETWEEN OUR RESPECTIVE ADMINISTRATIONS does not
only SERVE TO BRING OUR TWO COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES CLOSER TO ONE ANOTHER but
also serve to enhance the already cordial relations between our two
countries.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
OUR
TWO COUNTRIES HAVE, OVER THE YEARS, SHARED COMMON POSITIONS
IN VARIOUS
INTERNATIONAL FORA
INCLUDING THE
GROUP
OF 77, THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE
THEN ORGANIZATION
OF AFRICAN
UNITY (OAU) and
NOW renamed AFRICAN
UNION (AU).
We wish
to register
OUR APPRECIATION
and CONGRATULATE YOUR GREAT COUNTRY
FOR THE
OUTSTANDING ROLE
SHE PLAYED TOWARDS
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE OAU
TO THE AU, CULMINATING IN THE SIRTE DECLARATION OF 9 September, 1999 WHICH
WAS A PRECURSOR TO THE FORMATION OF THE AFRICAN UNION IN DURBAN LAST YEAR.
YOUR
EXCELLENCY,
IN
CONCLUSION, IT IS OUR HOPE THAT, WITH YOUR PRESENCE AMONGST
US, THE
COOPERATION THAT
ALREADY EXISTS
BETWEEN OUR TWO
COUNTRIES,
WILL BE
SPURRED TO
NEW HEIGHTS.
ON OUR PART, WE WOULD LIKE TO ASSURE YOU THAT THE GOVERNMENT
AND PEOPLE
OF LESOTHO
WILL EXTEND TO YOU
ALL
THE NECESSARY SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO ENABLE YOU TO CARRY OUT
YOUR ASSIGNMENT SUCCESSFULLY for the benefit of our RESPECTIVE peoples.
FINALLY,
YOUR EXCELLENCY, WE WISH TO CONVEY THROUGH YOU, OUR WARM GREETINGS
AND BEST
WISHES TO
his excellency, colonel
Muammar Al-Gaddafi,
FOR HIS
PERSONAL WELL-BEING AND
FOR THE SUCCESS AND PROSPERITY OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT
SOCIALIST LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA.
WELCOME
to Lesotho, MR. SECRETARY!!!
20 MARCH 2003
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