FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT TO MEET QADHAFI "SOON" - SOMALI REPORT
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom ; 22-Mar-2000 12:00:00 am 

Reliable reports from important sources say the former South African president, Nelson Mandela, will soon visit Libya and hold talks with Libyan leader Col Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi.

The talks will centre on how to achieve a lasting peace in Somalia and the Djibouti peace initiative on Somalia.

Reports say the UN has asked Mandela to persuade Col Qadhafi to support the Djibouti-brokered Somali national reconciliation conference and stop organizing a parallel peace meeting in his country...