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Moammar Gadhafi holds talks with US envoy
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-17 09:39
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi held talks on improving relations with
Washington with the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs
on Thursday, Libya's official news agency reported.
Assistant Secretary David Welch met Gadhafi for more than an hour at the end
of a three-day trip to Libya, JANA reported. Welch is the former U.S. ambassador
to Egypt.
The report said Welch expressed Washington's appreciation of Libya's efforts
to bring peace to Darfur, the west Sudanese region where a rebellion and
counter-insurgency has led to the death of at least 180,000 people during the
past two years.
Welch also said the United States was interested in developing economic and
political relations with Libya, JANA reported.
Last year, the United States decided to resume diplomatic relations with
Libya after Gadhafi agreed to abandon his programs for weapons of mass
destruction, accepted responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103,
and promised to pay compensation to relatives of the 270 people killed in the
attack over Lockerbie, Scotland.
For much of the previous 25 years, Washington had viewed Libya as a
terrorist-sponsoring adversary.
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