U.S. Secretary of State Meets Senior Libyan Official

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Saturday with Libyan Foreign Minister Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, the highest-level diplomatic contact between Tripoli and Washington since Libya agreed to give up its WMD programs in 2003, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 26).

“Libya made a historic decision to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction and I think that it is paying off for Libya in the sense that American companies are there, that we are having this meeting and that we are talking about how to continue and push forward our relationship,” Rice said

“It has been a good thing for the world and for the international community to see the leadership of Libya and your leader making this historic decision, and a decision that was taken for peace,” she said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, Sept. 18).

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