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NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) – Mauritania’s president who also headed the
African Union’s Libya mediation panel will attend a meeting in
Paris this week to discuss Libya’s future without Moamer Kadhafi,
an official said Wednesday.Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz “leaves this
Wednesday evening for Paris,” ahead of the Thursday start of the
“Friends of Libya” conference, a presidency source said.The AU
steadily criticised NATO’s attacks on Kadhafi regime targets and
created its own mediation team that unsuccessfully tried to
negotiate a peaceful end the conflict.Ould Abdel Aziz headed the
high-level panel, which also included Presidents Denis Sassou
Nguesso of Congo (Brazzaville), Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, Jacob
Zuma of South Africa and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.Ould Abdel Aziz
has kept quiet since Libya’s National Transitional Council seized
Tripoli last week, but his UPR political party on August 22
congratulated the Libyan people for their “total victory.”Around 60
nations are expected to be represented at Thursday’s Friends of
Libya conference, which will be co-chaired by French President
Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron.The
conference is expected to discuss funding for the war-shattered
country as well as police training and diplomatic recognition for
its future administration.© 2011 AFP