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Handshake clinches Libya's return from isolation
Blair holds out prospect of meeting Gadafy
Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Wednesday February 11, 2004
The Guardian
Tony Blair is planning to meet the Libyan president, Muammar Gadafy, provided steps are taken to resolve the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher and progress continues to be made in dismantling Libya's weapons of mass destruction.
Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, said yesterday: "We are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient, but no date has yet been fixed."
A meeting would represent a significant juncture in Libya's campaign to end its pariah status in the west.
Mr Straw was speaking at a press conference after talks between Mr Blair and Abdul Rahman Mohammed Shalgam, the Libyan foreign minister, at Downing Street. It was the highest-level meeting between the two countries since 1975.
Fletcher was shot dead while policing an anti-Gadafy protest outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.
The shot was fired from inside the embassy but no one has admitted responsibility or been arrested: those inside used their diplomatic status to obtain immunity at the time.
The Metropolitan police have visited Libya to investigate but without success.
Although Mr Shalgam proposed nothing specific in relation to the investigation, the British officials were encouraged by his positive tone and are hopeful this will be a prelude to movement.
As a first step the British government would like Libya to allow those who were in the embassy at time to be interviewed by the Met. The aim is to have the person or persons responsible tried for murder.
Mr Straw said the Libyans had agreed to resolve the outstanding issue of responsibility for Fletcher's murder.
Mr Shalgam promised to work in "a spirit of cooperation, transparency and honesty" on the issue.
Mr Straw said the British government wanted the cooperation "strengthened or enhanced, so that this matter can be brought to a closure, which is the great wish of all of us, but above all of the family of Yvonne Fletcher".
At one point Mr Shalgam countered a question about Fletcher by suggesting that the British government had questions to answer about an alleged MI6 plot to assassinate Col Gadafy, a claim made by David Shayler, the British agent turned whistleblower.
It would be politically difficult for Mr Blair to visit Libya with no progress on the issue.
Glen Smyth, chairman of the the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: "There must be no normalisation of relations with Libya until they hand over those responsible for the murder of Yvonne Fletcher.
"It is inconceivable that they [the Libyans] do not know who was responsible."
An invitation to Mr Blair to visit Tripoli may have been in a letter from Gol Gadafy delivered by Mr Shalgam.
Yesterday Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, became the first western leader to meet Col Gadafy since the Libyan leader renounced his weapons of mass destruction but a meeting with between Col Gadafy and Mr Blair would be a more significant development, because of Britain's close relationship with the US.
Col Gadafy's attempts to normalise relations with the west have accelerated since his announcement. But unlike Britain, the US and the EU are maintaining sanctions against Libya.
The British government claimed the WMD announcement as a triumph for British diplomacy.
But Mr Shalgam said yesterday that Libya had been having secret talks with the US since 1992. He said American officials had now returned to Libya in the US interests section of the Belgian embassy, and that Libyan officials would be going to the Belgian embassy in Washington.
Mr Straw also told the press conference that Britain was encouraging Libya to move forward in the area of human rights.
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