Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya’s Ambassador to the UN, took over the presidency of the Security Council Tuesday for the month of November. The presidency is rotated each month between the 15 members of the Council. It was recalled here that as recently as Oct. 8, Libya’s President Muammar Qaddafi was quoted by the Libyan News Agency as calling for “no negotiations or cease-fire with the Zionist enemy; we are a people who go to war as easy as we go to a party.”
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