Gaddafi Becomes AU’s New Chairman
(APA)--Sixty-seven year old Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the leader of the Libyan Revolution who has just been elected new chairman of the African Union (AU) is a convinced advocate of the formation of the United States of Africa.
Colonel Gaddafi’s election to succeed Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete was conducted in a plenary session during the tenth ordinary session of the AU held on Monday in the Ethiopian capital.
For a long time the new chairman of the pan-African organisation has campaigned for the establishment of a continental government. Besides, the AU’s Constitutive Act was launched in Sirte, his native region in Libya in March 2001.
With the turning of the AU Commission into a Union Authority decided by the heads of State on Sunday in Addis Ababa, his dream of the formation of the United States of Africa can now take shape.
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