TRIPOLI, Libya (PANA)�Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gadhafi indirectly criticized African legal experts and parliamentarians for a lack of concrete suggestions on how to implement the recommendations of the 4th OAU Extraordinary Summit held in Sirte, Libya, last September.

He was disappointed that experts who met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from April 17-21 before coming to Tripoli, had not been mandated by their governments to make concrete decisions towards creation of the proposed Union of African States.

He addressed a June 2 OAU council of ministers session devoted to the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war, the situation in Sierra Leone and in the Great Lakes region. It was attended by Presidents Idriss Deby of Chad, Alpha Konare of Mali, Bakili Muluzi of Malawi, Charles Taylor of Liberia and Jerry Rawlings of Ghana.

President Gadhafi noted various projects concerning the institutions of the African Economic Community should be finalized for submission for the July OAU Summit in Lome, Togo, before being adopted by the scheduled Extraordinary Summit (Sirte II) in 2001.

He called for a quicker pace towards creation of a Pan-African Parliament, as envisaged under the Abuja Treaty creating the African Economic Community.

"With globalization and the development of technological innovations, the world has been totally transformed. This change comes with the erosion of political, economic, cultural, and even social strategies of the past," he explained.

After spearheading the struggle for political independence, the OAU needs to mold the continent into a Union of African States to fulfill the wishes of its founders in 1963, Col. Gadhafi added, saying creating a United States of Africa would be more viable than having existing nation states overtaken by globalization.

Existing African states need to emulate international banks which are making efforts to merge as a way of avoiding bankruptcy, the Libyan leader argued.

Mr. Gadhafi called for development of an African satellite system to catch up with the rest of the world, and common actions to fight mosquitoes, endemic diseases, locusts and desertification, which respect no national borders.

African states should strive to trade with each other because trading rules with the European Union have been changed, he said.

Giving the example of Tunisia and Libya, Col. Gadhafi said these countries could no longer sell olive oil to France or Germany because these are now obliged by law to buy their oil from EU partners like Spain.