Mr. Ghanem suggested, however, that if foreign oil companies didn't send back their staff, who were evacuated at the start of the crisis last month, then Libya would be compelled to offer new oil concessions to other companies from Brazil, China and India in order to restore production and exports to their previous levels.
Bush had promised that Libya's actions would be met with "good faith" by the United States.
His official spokesman said the "context" of any visit would be that Libya accepted Britain's positions on Lockerbie, Wpc Fletcher and weapons of mass destruction.
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Labour backbencher David Winnick urged Mr Cameron to guarantee that no military action would be taken against Libya without "direct authorisation" from the United Nations Security Council.
But Mr Cameron has been complicit in the recent mistakes: he was aware that a diplomatic team would be sent into eastern Libya, and sources in Downing Street cast doubt on Prince Andrew's position before hurriedly shoring it up.
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The British government was negotiating a Prisoner Transfer Agreement with Libya at the time of the American cables, but was concerned it would not be completed in time for al-Megrahi to be sent home to Libya before he died.
Libya's foreign ministry has already said it would be prepared to negotiate his release, if asked.
The Conservative MP, who opposed both the Iraq war and the military intervention in Libya, claimed that military action against the regime would be "counter-productive".
Mohamed al-Magariaf, president of Libya's General National Congress, has said rogue militias would be disbanded.
This would be Prince Andrew's third trip to Libya in his role as Britain's special representative for trade and investment.
He added the funds, which will be released to the Central Bank of Libya, would help to address urgent humanitarian needs.
One official called the decision to remove Libya from the terrorism list a "political decision" that would be taken only after the Bush administration can be certain of assurances from all levels of the Libyan government that it has ended support for terrorism.
Presumably, any such decision would, like the U.S. intervention in Libya, be dressed up as a humanitarian operation.
He said that there would not be U.S. ground forces in Libya.
It may be that America would have exercised the same caution in Libya even if it had not been for Iraq.
The Times, however, obtained a letter the Obama Administration sent to Scotland a week before the event in which it said that releasing Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" was acceptable as long as he was kept in Scotland and would be "far preferable" to sending him back to Libya.
He said he was in frequent contact with top executives from oil companies operating in Libya to assure them their contract with the country's national oil company would be upheld.
But I think that there may be a false perception that there are a whole bunch of secret super-effective air assets that are in a warehouse somewhere that could just be pulled out and that would somehow immediately solve the situation in Libya.
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While the UK was not "sitting on the sidelines", there were more constraints over Syria than in Libya - there was no authority for military intervention from the UN, the effect on surrounding countries such as the Lebanon, Israel and Saudi Arabia had to be taken into account and military intervention would have to be "on a vastly greater scale" than in Libya.
According to a swirl of rumour filtering out of Libya, the thousands of miles of underground tunnelling and storage dumps are more elaborate than would be needed simply to carry water, and might be intended for more sinister purposes.
On 21 March 2011, in a Commons debate on the UN Security Council resolution authorising the intervention, the MP for Penrith and the Border said that there would not be the same level of legitimacy as there was in Kosovo because Libya "is not just an Arab country but a country with oil".
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