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BIRMINGHAM, htl 48009 (313) 644-8565 Monday to Seturdgy 9 urn to 6 pm Metro DatiOn tor OM 35 Yeon Belgian Minister Criticizes Israel Brussels (JTA) — A Belgian Cabinet minister has caused a political uproar here by visiting Libya, in an ap- parent violation of diplo- . matic sanctions, and by justifying the trip with a negative remark about Israel. Robert Urbain, minister of foreign trade and European affairs, met with Libyan Foreign Minister Omar Mustafa al- Montasser dur- ing a one-day visit to the Li- byan capital of Tripoli. Mr. Urbain confirmed the meeting, but stressed it was a private visit. Apparently, he was acting on his own in- itiative. Mr. Urbain, a French- speaking Socialist, defended his trip, insisting it did not violate the air embargo and the reduction of diplomatic relations with Libya ordered by the United Nations. The sanctions were impos- ed after Libya's refusal to extradite two of its citizens accused of involvement in the 1988 bombing of a Pan American jet. "But if I should not go to countries which do not respect United Nations resolutions, I would not have been to Israel for a long time," Mr. Urbain said in an interview with Belgian radio. That statement triggered a swift reaction from the Israeli Embassy here. "Israel's Embassy ex- presses its astonishment over the fact that Minister Urbain had thought it necessary to invoke the State of Israel in order to justify his visit to Libya," the embassy said in a com- munique issued last week. Mr. Urbain visited Israel earlier this year at the head of a business and trade dele- gation. Mr. Urbain made his trip to Libya after being on vaca- tion at the Tunisian island of Djerba, from which he trav- eled to Tripoli by road. "This sort of visit is com- mon between two countries where official contacts are inopportune," he added. Mr. Urbain is known to cultivate many Arab, and in particular Libyan, friend- ships. An embarrassed Belgian Foreign Ministry spokesman emphasized that Mr. Urbain had no authority to do anything in Libya on behalf of the Belgian government. The spokesman stressed that Mr. Urbain's visit was not a Belgian diplomatic in- itiative. Observers noted that Belgium also represents the United States' interests in Tripoli. This trip presumably was to be kept secret by the two sides, but the Libyan news agency JANA announced in a short dispatch that Mr. Urbain had left Tripoli after a 24-hour visit during which he spoke of cooperation bet- ween the two countries. Belgium Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene said he was not aware of Mr. Ur- bain's trip to Libya. "The Belgian position. toward Libya has not chang- ed," a spokesman for Mr. Dehaene said. The French-language daily Le Soir said Mr. Urbain had been "trapped like a novice" by the Libyan news agency, which announced the visit when it was supposed to be private. The opposition Flemish Liberals are planning to question the Prime Minister in Parliament over Mr. Ur- bain's trip, and some have called for the minister's res- ignation. Air China Israel Flights Tel Aviv (JTA) — Air China, the national airline of the People's Republic of China, announced that it would be inaugurating weekly non- stop flights between Beijing and Tel Aviv later this mon- th. This puts into effect China's part of an agree- ment on mutual air service that was signed last year by China and Israel after they established diplomatic rela- tions. El Al, Israel's national airline, has been flying to China since last September. By an unfortunate quirk of international scheduling, both El Al and Air China will leave Israel's Ben- Gurion airport on Thursdays — the Chinese airline at 5:10 p.m. and El Al shortly before midnight. On the flights from Beij- ing, Air China will depart on Wednesday mornings. El Al leaves Beijing on Saturday nights.