But Libya will not feel fully normal so long as the colonel remains at large.
The loss of Libyan production due to unrest has not been catastrophic, but Libya is a bit player.
But Libya's Lana news agency said the action at the interior ministry was not linked to the events outside the foreign ministry.
"But Libya has got a lot going for it still because its people are determined to protect the new freedoms that they have, " he added.
But Libya has exposed some troubling conclusions about more ambitious adventures.
But Libya presented an unusual combination of challenges for China.
Other foreign, particularly European, companies entered the fray in the interim, but Libya kept the old American concessions on hold, not out of gallantry but in the hope that oil-industry lobbyists would eventually persuade the American government to relent.
But unlike Libya's abrupt disruption, the new sanctions are expected to affect oil markets only gradually.
But as Libya's NATO-supported rebels closed in on Gadhafi, truckloads of arms left for Northern Mali.
Foreign oil companies have gradually returned to Libya since the 2011 revolution that ousted Moammar Gadhafi, but much of Libya remains highly insecure and under the sway of independent militia.
The lifting of the sanctions makes most commercial business, investment and trade with Libya possible but maintains controls on exports to Libya in accordance with the State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
Number one, beef up our security and procedures not just in Libya but in every embassy and consulate in the region.
French energy major Total SA is involved in Libya but not to the same extent as Italian ENI or even German Wintershall.
When sanctions were lifted in 2003 and 2004, investment started to flood into the country but nevertheless, Libya still has a very undiversified economy.
But even in Libya, which had a front-line and a terrain more vulnerable to aerial attack, bombing took a long time to weaken Qaddafi's forces.
The ICC said it was aware of the reports from Libya but added that legal proceedings on the admissibility of its own case were still pending.
But much of Libya's wealth disappears down more banal sink-holes.
I've just left Libya but have been below the radar for almost a week after an unexpected detour to a Tripoli hospital - I'll write about that little adventure in the next day or so.
But his policy towards Libya has always been, quite deliberately, not to be in the lead.
There's a new parliament about to sit in Libya - but what hope for economic recovery?
The consumption and sale of alcohol is illegal in Libya, but it is available on the black market.
We witnessed this in the case of Libya, but also in the mid-1990s when France intervened in Bosnia and Kosovo.
But we have seen Libya do things nobody expected them to do, and they did them with a rapidity that has left some ... breathless.
He supported military intervention in Libya, but opposes it in Syria.
France may have been on the same page as Britain on Libya, but it is ready to give limited support to elevating Palestinian representation in New York.
But Buzakhar said although Libya's Amazigh renaissance did not enjoy the state support exhibited in Morocco and Algeria, he was optimistic the Berber culture would continue to flourish.
Mr. Shakmak said he had no knowledge of a particular threat to Libya, but said Tripoli was sending more troops to the border and to desert oil fields, and boosting communications capacity, as a precautionary measure in response to the Algeria attack.
When asked whether Clinton had heard of the security concerns prior to the Benghazi attack, Burns said the conversations with Clinton and senior level officials were mainly focused on the overall general security picture in Libya, but there was a general awareness of the deteriorating security situation in the eastern part of the country.
But Mr Qaddafi, and Libya, seem on their way to becoming rather more friendly to the West than ever before.
But given the upheavals in Libya, it seems possible that Megrahi's secrets, if he had any, went with him to the grave.
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