LIBYA: SPANISH PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR ARRIVES IN TRIPOLI TO MEET WITH LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADAFFI

Record ID: 190475

  • Title: LIBYA: SPANISH PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR ARRIVES IN TRIPOLI TO MEET WITH LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADAFFI
  • Date: 17th September 2003
  • Summary: (W8) TRIPOLI, LIBYA (SEPTEMBER 17, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. GENERAL VIEWS TRIPOLI; TRIPOLI SKYLINE; STREET SCENES; PEOPLE IN STREET (7 SHOTS) 0.48 2. VARIOUS OF BAZAAR (2 SHOTS) 0.58 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SIBI ABDUL GADEL, BAZAAR SHOPKEEPER FOR 30 YEARS, SAYING: "It's a better future, to live here. Lybia in the future will be very very nice." 1.11 4. CU: CARPET SAYING "LIBYA" 1.15 5. LIBYAN AND SPANISH FLAGS 1.20 (NIGHTSHOTS) 6. VARIOUS: ARRIVAL OF SPANISH PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR ARRIVES AND IS GREETED BY LIBYAN PRIME MINISTER SHOKRI GHANEM (6 SHOTS) 2.06 7. PAN/CU'S: INTERIOR, AZNAR AND GHANEM SEATED (3 SHOTS) 2.21 8. HUGE BILLBOARD SHOWING GADAFFI 2.25 9. VARIOUS: AZNAR MEETING WITH LIBYAN LEADER MUAMMAR GADAFFI (8 SHOTS) 2.59 10. CU: EXTERIOR- SPAINSH AND LIBYAN FLAGS AT NIGHT 3.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
  • Country: Libya
  • Reuters ID: LVA9QELKIQ7DBQSQ83M9O1KRIYTK
  • Story Text: Spanish leader Aznar in Libya to meet Gaddafi.


    Libya rolled out the red carpet on Wednesday
    (September 17) for Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar,
    the first Western leader to visit the country since United
    Nations sanctions were lifted last week.

    An honour guard of AK 47-toting Libyan soldiers and
    Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem were waiting to meet Aznar
    when his Spanish airforce jet landed at a Tripoli airport.

    He was then whisked off in a convoy of limousines and
    was later due to dine with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

    Spanish government officials see Aznar's groundbreaking
    trip as a way to help bring Libya in from the cold after
    years of isolation.

    Few Western leaders visited the North African country
    during the more than a decade it spent under U.N.

    sanctions, which were imposed after the 1988 bombing of
    airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. The attack killed 270
    people.


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