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Jean Ping

Stephen Sackur talks to Jean Ping, Chairman of the Standing Commission of the African Union, an organisation co-founded by Gaddafi which did not back the anti-Gaddafi coalition.

HARDtalk is in France, one of the countries playing a leading role in the UN backed military intervention in Libya. But just how solid is the international backing for the anti-Gaddafi coalition? The Arab League supported the UN resolution, the African Union, of which Libya is a founder, did not. Why? Stephen Sackur speaks to Jean Ping, Chairman of the Standing Commission of the AU. He asks how come the Libyan dictator still has so many powerful friends in Africa?

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