Colonel Muammar Qadhafi pitched his tent in Brussels on his first official visit to Europe in fifteen years and the US has finally eased economic sanctions, suggesting that Libya’s rehabilitation is almost complete.
Since the Colonel announced last December that he was abandoning his weapons of mass destruction programmes, relations with the west have been going from strength to strength.
Libya’s efforts at cooperation certainly seem to have paid off. British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited in March, Qadhafi made his Brussels visit in April and the same month the Libyans got what they had been after for years – the easing of sanctions, enabling American firms to compete for lucrative energy contracts.
