Gaddafi Plans Tour To Italy, Ending A Long-running
Standoff Between Tripoli And Rome
Al-Maghreb News Updates
13 May 2009
Rome - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
will pay his first official visit to Italy next month
and return for the G8 summit in July, the Italian
Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Libya's ambassador to Italy Hafed Gaddur said the
visit from June 10 to 12 would mainly address
bilateral issues.
The two countries signed an accord last August under
which Rome will provide billions of dollars in
investments and compensation for its colonial rule of
the North African country from 1911 to 1943, ending a
long-running dispute.
They have also signed an agreement meant to stop
illegal immigrants from reaching Italy, and last week
Rome began sending migrants intercepted at sea
directly back to Libya before they reach its shores,
drawing criticism from the United Nations.
Libyan investment funds have bought stakes in major
Italian companies in recent months and have said they
are considering further investments.
Gaddafi will return to Italy in July to attend, as
chairman of the African Union, part of a G8 summit due
to include African leaders. He could then meet U.S.
President Barack Obama, in what would be his first
meeting with a US president.
Italy, which this year chairs the Group of Eight, has
been at the forefront of the thaw in the West's ties
with Tripoli since Libya announced in 2003 that it
would stop pursuing nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons.
Gaddafi, who seized power in a 1969 coup, has met some
European leaders since the thaw began, including
Britain's Tony Blair in 2007, and has visited some
European countries, though not Italy so far. - Reuters
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