|
|
Article: LIBYA - Foreign Trade & EU-Mediterranean Partnership.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- July 5, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Input Solutions. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Libya's main trading partners are Italy, Germany, the UK and France. They are followed by Turkey, Greece and Spain. As the UN suspended sanctions against
Libya on April 5, 1999 - after Tripoli handed over the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing for trial in the Netherlands by Scottish judges - Italy and other partners got the European Union to invite the Libyans to attend the April 16 conference at Stuttgart on EU-Mediterranean trade partnership as special guests. Damascus took the lead among Arab states lobbying the EU for Libya to be invited at that meeting, as Syria headed the Arab side to the Stuttgart conference.
The April 16 conference discussed ...