Tripoli, 01 Sept-(ANA)-Libya is beginning a week of celebrations to mark 40 years since the coup that brought Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.
Several African leaders are already in Libya for an African Union summit that was held on Monday.
They will attend a big military parade and festivities to mark the occasion.
But most Western leaders are staying away, amid a political storm over the release and return to Libya of the only man jailed for the Lockerbie bombing.
Scottish authorities freed Abdel Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi on 20 August after he had served eight years of a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, in which 270 people died.
His subsequent hero's welcome in Tripoli generated anger in the US and UK. The British government has also been forced to deny reports that his release was linked to an oil deal.
As Libya marks its anniversary, British authorities say they will publish all correspondence with Scottish ministers over his release. (ANA)
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