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Report: Gaddafi to make state visit France in December

Oct 28, 2007, 14:56 GMT

Paris - Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi is to pay France a state visit in early December, the French weekly Journal du Dimanche reported Sunday. According to the report, Gaddafi is to visit French President Nicolas Sarkozy ahead of the European Union-Africa summit, which is to take place on December 8 and 9 in Lisbon. Sarkozy visited Gaddafi in July in Tripoli, shortly after the release from Libyan prison of the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of infecting children in Benghazi with AIDS. Sarkozy agreed with Libya on the delivery of weapons and the building of a nuclear power plant for water desalinization. The one-time 'rogue nation' Libya was isolated by the international community for 18 years after the North African country was held responsible the attacks on a Berlin discotheque in 1986 and the mid-air bombing of a Pan Am passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. International sanctions from the United States, the EU and the United Nations came to an end in 2004 after Libya paid damages. In April 2004, Gaddafi visited the EU Commission in Brussels, his first state visit to Europe in 15 years. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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