British authorities rejected that al Megrahi's release was tied to British business deals with Libya.
The UAE has been a very helpful partner with the coalition in dealing with Libya.
Additionally the United States has suspended the very limited military cooperation it had with Libya.
The fracture between the Obama camp and the neoconservative camp came to a head with Libya.
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He has had to make important decisions on Afghanistan, deal with Libya, deal with other economic issues.
And with Libya, as with Iraq, the proliferation charge is hard to prove, and harder to disprove.
The removal of sanctions means the United States will no longer punish countries that do business with Libya.
He answered questions about the recent French arms deal with Libya that has created an uproar in Europe.
Which brings me to the final area where the world must stand with Libya, and that is restoring prosperity.
In May 2006, Washington announced the full resumption of diplomatic ties with Libya.
When BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward signed contracts with Libya in 2007, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair stood at his side.
Responding to the report, Mr Straw said on Sunday that the "normalisation of relations with Libya" was in the UK's interests.
At the turn of the millennium, with Libya struggling under sanctions, he began to bring his country in from the cold.
This was followed in May by a meeting with Libya's interim prime minister in London to discuss further inquires into the bombing.
The move made most commercial business, investment and trade with Libya possible.
The SEC has been scrutinizing Goldman's dealings with Libya's sovereign-wealth fund since the middle of 2011 over possible violations of U.S. anti-corruption laws.
With Libya's youthful population set to double in the next 25 years, job-creation is a driving force behind the campaign to attract foreign capital.
Al-Assad, interviewed Thursday by an Iranian TV station, said the international effort to deal with Libya last year is "not the model to settle" the crisis.
Algeria, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia are also involved, with Libya perhaps to be added if its relations with the United States improve.
Overall, however, Mr Ghanem's remarks are very much in line with Libya's previous tactics of putting up a smokescreen to hide the fundamental changes in its position.
Eighteen of those nations are in the Middle East and North Africa, with Libya and Egypt among those added to the 1990 list that includes Israel and Somalia.
This occurred with Libya, following Moammar Gadhafi's offensive on Benghazi.
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The London-based market research firm Euromonitor International recently released a report finding that certain countries neighbouring troubled areas, like Algeria, which shares a border with Libya, may be affected.
De Villepin said on Thursday that families of the 170 people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA DC-10 reached a compensation deal with Libya the night before.
With the recovery efforts in Japan underway and protest movements petering out in the Middle East (with Libya being the big exception), global equities markets have had a chance to recover.
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As a child growing up in a poor region of southern Algeria, Abou Zeid had little formal schooling, but his intimate knowledge of the border with Libya made him an expert smuggler.
The BBC's David Bamford says there is a sense of relief in Washington that the last-minute intervention by the French Government did not throw the negotiated deal with Libya completely off course.
The French, keen to put behind them charges of complicity with unsavoury Arab regimes, took a gamble with Libya, recognising the rebels early, demanding Colonel Qaddafi's departure and pushing for air strikes.
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