Sarkozy courts oil-rich Libya

TRIPOLI,Libya-French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday on a trip to deepen relations after helping to resolve a diplomatic standoff that hurt the oil exporter's ties with the West.Libyan officials said the two countries would sign an accord on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership and another to activate what they called a previous agreement on cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.Sarkozy,who met Gaddafi in a tent in the compound of his Tripoli residence,has said he wants to help Libya return to the"concert of nations"after it freed six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.The medics-five Bulgarians and a Palestinian-left Libya on Tuesday on a French plane accompanied by Sarkozy's wife,clearing the way for a visit by the president."I am happy to be in your country to talk about the future,"Sarkozy wrote in a book at Gaddafi's residence.He is seeking to further French business interests in Libya and boost diplomatic ties before flying on to Senegal and Gabon."There will be the signing of an agreement on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership,"Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Shalgam told reporters shortly before Sarkozy and Gaddafi met.
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