CNN: Libya dismisses foreign minister after meeting with Israeli counterpart
Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem (CNN)Libya's internationally recognized government dismissed Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush after she met her Israeli counterpart in Rome last week.
Israel's foreign ministry announced on Sunday night that the meeting had taken place.
The Libyan foreign ministry rejected reports that the meeting was officially sanctioned and said in a statement that it was "informal," "unprepared" and "did not include negotiations or consultations."
It added that Mangoush "reaffirmed Libya's principles towards the Palestinian cause in a clear and unambiguous manner."
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Update #1: Libyan PM sacks foreign minister as row over Israel meeting grows (Reuters)
Update #2: Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush dismissed: Sources (Al Jazeera)
WNU Editor: The reaction within Libya for this informal meeting of Foreign Ministers has been violent .... Protests erupt in Libya over contact with Israel (BBC)
Tell me again, why did Obama kill Gadaffi after the Us reached an agreement with him?
ReplyDelete"The 2001 September 11 attacks in the United States were denounced by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.[9] Following the U.S. military response in the War in Afghanistan, Gaddafi increasingly sought to normalize relations with the United States, initially focusing on the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Libya. On 19 December 2003, Gaddafi made a surprise announcement of his intention to dismantle Libya's WMD programs.[10][11] The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials were quoted "Libya had bought nuclear components from various black market dealers", and provided the various designs of centrifuges to U.S. officials and gave the name of its suppliers.
ReplyDeleteAmong the list of suppliers included the revealing role of A.Q. Khan, a notable and famed scientist of Pakistan. Events in Libya led to the debriefing of A.Q. Khan in 2004 by the Government of Pakistan while the United States, aided by IAEA and Interpol, apprehended the former Libyan nuclear program's head and Swiss, Friedrich Tinner in Switzerland. On 22 January 2004, U.S. military transport planes carried around 55,000 pounds (25,000 kg) of documents and equipment related to Libya's nuclear and ballistic missile programs to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. In March 2004, over 1,000 additional centrifuge and missile parts were shipped out of Libya.
At the time of Libya's nuclear disarmament, its nuclear program was in the very initial stages of development.[2] The Director-General of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei stated to the media that it was his "gut feeling" that Libya was three to seven years from successfully building a nuclear weapon.[2]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disarmament_of_Libya
Libya's decision was praised by many in the West but criticized by many in the Arab world.[6] In 2004, Paula DeSutter, the-then United States Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance stated that “we want to have lessons learned from [Libya's disarmament] because we want Libya to be a model for other countries.”[6] Some prominent politicians and diplomats hoped that Iran, North Korea, and Syria would decide to follow the Libyan model of disarmament
ReplyDeleteAnd the Obama killed him!
So much for Syria and North Korea coming clean.
Way to go OBOZO!
In a further sign of warming ties, U.S. President George W. Bush called Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi on Monday to voice satisfaction at a U.S.-Libya deal to compensate victims of terrorism, the White House said.
ReplyDeleteNOVEMBER 17, 2008
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-usa-idUSTRE4AG3V220081117
And the Obama killed Gadaffi!
Ambassador Robert Joseph, the leader of the U.S. side of the secret negotiations in 2003 that led to Libya giving up its nuclear program, said he called Gaddafi’s demise “overdue.”
ReplyDelete“It needed to occur, this is a man that has the blood of hundreds of Americans on his hands and he has met justice. The fact that it came from his own people, I think is true justice,” he said.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/gaddafi-dead-bush-team-sought-normal-relations-still-194400958.html
You can make a valid argument that Gadaffi needed to die.
What is in dispute is did the US have to give him a shove?
So now we have what we have. Rabid Islamicists running the asylum.
Improvement, No?
Now why did Israel release details of the secret meeting, knowing it will likely get the Libyan official, Najla Mangoush, executed?
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