NEW DELHI, India – The Libyan foreign minister Saturday said current U.S.S policies are like an epidemic threatening peace, and that they need to be treated with “struggle.”

“This epidemic can be cured only with antibiotics people’s struggle for freedom and their right to fight U.S hegemony,” Kamal Hassan Al-Mansour, the foreign minister, said in a speech to a conference of foreign ministers from non-aligned nations being held in New Delhi.

Al-Mansour said that the US. air raids on Libya on Tuesday were aimed at killing Libyan leader Col. Moammar Kadafi and overthrowing the government he founded. He said the “abominable administration” in Washington would also seek to overthrow pro-Soviet governments in Nicaragua, Cambodia and Afghanistan,

Although the United States claimed its attacks were prompted by the Libyan sponsorship of international terrorism, AL-Mansour said the truth was that Washington vas training and arming terrorists itself to be used against Libya, India and some African nations.

“The first step to eradicate terrorism is to stop the U.S.A from speaking about it because it trains and arms terrorists,” he said on the concluding day of the non-aligned nations’ conference.

‘Al-Mansour called for struggle “against the US.A. and its hegemony,” and said Washington was putting obstacles in the way of the 101-nation nonaligned movement’ efforts to end white-minority rule in South Africa and the Israeli ‘occupation of what it considers to be Palestinian areas.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 25, 1986