U.S. Normalizing Relations with Libya

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Relations between the US and Libya have entered a “new phase”, according to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Speaking after a historic meeting with Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, she said differences remained but they had started a new era of co-operation.

A cultural exchange agreement would be signed, and the US hopes to have an ambassador in Tripoli soon, she said.

They met in a compound bombed by the US in 1986 over what the US said was Libyan involvement in a terror attack.