MI6 dan Muamar Gaddafi

RainbowSix

Sarkozy cuts deals with Gaddafi, talks rights

Reuters
• Monday December 10 2007

(Adds business deals, detail)
By Francois Murphy and Kerstin Gehmlich
PARIS, Dec 10 (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi finalised business deals worth several billion euros on Monday after a meeting in which the French leader said he also pressed the issue of human rights.
Sarkozy's own top rights official sparked controversy by strongly criticising Gaddafi ahead of his first visit to France in 34 years, saying her country was not a "doormat" on which he could wipe off the blood of his crimes, and that she was uncomfortable with him arriving on World Human Rights Day.
Sarkozy defended his own record on human rights, saying he was right to receive Gaddafi after the Libyan leader scrapped a weapons of mass destruction programme, stopped backing terrorism and freed a group of foreign medics in July.
"I am also here to fight at the side of French businesses and factories so that we have the contracts and orders that the others were so happy to have in our stead, without in any way renouncing my convictions on human rights," Sarkozy said.
After dinner, the two leaders oversaw the signing of contracts for Airbus planes, nuclear power and other deals which Paris said totalled more than 10 billion euros.
Libya's Afriqiyah Airlines signed a contract for six A350 aircraft, and Libyan Airlines signed deals for four A330, seven A320 and four A350 aircraft, Sarkozy's office said.
But Airbus, a unit of EADS, said the orders were the finalisation of a memorandum of understanding signed at the Paris Air Show in June. The Airbus deals are estimated to be worth a total of around $3.17 billion at list prices.

"THEY'RE THERE"
A nuclear cooperation deal including the sale of one or several nuclear reactors for sea water desalination and support for uranium mining was signed, as were deals with gas firm GDF and nuclear power company Areva.
But few details were announced and it was not immediately clear where the large total value came from.
Asked where the 10 billion euros came from, Sarkozy's diplomatic adviser Jean-David Levitte said: "They're there".
But an industry source said a concrete order for a reactor was not set to be signed this week, estimating Areva's deal on power transmission and distribution to be worth around 300 million euros.
Contracts were also signed with French companies Vinci and Veolia Water, but Sarkozy's office gave no further details.
In the arms sector, the two countries signed a memorandum of cooperation, with Libya committing itself to enter exclusive negotiations with France to acquire equipment in the framework of state-to-state contracts, Sarkozy's office said.
Gaddafi is seeking to bolster his statesman's credentials as his ties with the West have warmed since 2003, when he scrapped his weapons of mass destruction programmes. Few details of his schedule have been announced, but he is due to meet Sarkozy on at least one other occasion during his five-day stay and will entertain in his Bedouin Arab tent pitched in the garden of the presidential guesthouse.
Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade, a junior member of the centre-right government, said in an interview with newspaper Le Parisien that France should demand guarantees on human rights when concluding trade deals.
"Colonel Gaddafi must understand that our country is not a doormat on which a leader, terrorist or not, can come and wipe the blood of his crimes off his feet. France should not receive this kiss of death," she said.
Sarkozy later defended Yade's right to speak out, saying: "She is secretary of state for human rights and it's perfectly normal that she has a conviction on this issue which, moreover, I share, and I reminded the Libyan president of that." (Additional reporting by Jon Boyle, Emmanuel Jarry and Marie Maitre)

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Korang tahu dak kenapa Muamar Gaddafi dan Libya telah dilucutkan dari senarai negara 'rogue states'? Ini merupakan salah satu kisah kejayaan MI6 yg disegani. CIA pun tak berjaya buat begini.

MI6 berjaya memusing Gaddafi dari mencipta senjata nuklear, melatih pengganas dan membayar pampasan kpd saudara-mara penerbangan Lockerbie yg dibom. Tetapi negotiation ini mengambil hampir 2 abad utk berjaya.

Sekarang ni barulah si Gaddafi boleh ke negara lain utk membeli-belah.

alphawolf

Ada yang kata Ghadafi kena beli.....entah la...

Dua ABAD? Is this a modification of the 'lauk tahan dua tahun' joke?

RainbowSix

Isu ni sedang jadi bahan pembelajaran. Tapi memang 'tense'. Hampir gagal disebabkan John Bolton yg mahu Gaddafi menyerah diri. Ada satu masa tu MI6 minta President Bush suruh John Bolton jangan ganggu negotiation. Tapi banyak faktor menyebabkan Gaddafi jatuh. Hanya pada tahun 2003 barulah isu Gaddafi ini selesai dan Libya dikeluarkan dari senarai Rouge States.

[ Last edited by  RainbowSix at 11-12-2007 08:58 AM ]

RainbowSix

During the 1980s, the United States pursued a policy of sanctions against, and isolation of,
Libya because, it asserted, that state was supporting international terrorism and attempting
to develop weapons of mass destruction (WMD) .' After it became evident that Libya was implicated
in the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988,
the UN Security Council imposed comprehensive economic sanctions on Libya, which were
lifted only after Libya both handed over for trial two individuals indicted for the explosion
and agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims.* The United States continued
to maintain its own sanctions, however, in part due to Libya's "pursuit of weapons of mass
destruction and their related delivery system."3

In March 2003-at the same time the United States was using military force to disarm
Iraq's purported WMD program-Libyan officials secretly approached the governments of the
United States and the United Kingdom about disclosing and ending Libya's WMD program.
Thereafter, U.S. and UKnegotiating teams held secret sessions with Libyan officials, which
included visits to Libya in which that state revealed the extent of its nuclear, chemical, biological,
and missile-relatedweapons activities. The U.S. and UKteams asserted that Libya must publicly disclose the extent of its programs and pledge to abide by those agreements regulating and monitoring.
On December 19, 2003, the Libyan foreign ministry issued a public statement that it was
ending its MMD program.

In view of the international climate that prevailed during the Cold War and the tension
that has gnpped the Middle East region, [Libya] called on the countries of the Middle East
and Africa to make those regions a zone free of weapons of mass destruction. Since there
was no serious response to its appeal, [Libya] tried develop its defence capabilities.
During talks held between Libyan, United States and United Kingdom experts concerning
the activities of [Libya] in that field. the Libyan experts briefed their counterparts
on materials, equipment and programmes, such as centrifuges and containers for
transporting chemicals, that might be used to produce internationally banned weapons.
Following those talks between [Libya] and the United States ofAmerica and the United
Kingdom, both permanent members of the Security Council, which is responsible for
guaranteeing international peace and security, [Libya] decided of its own free will to eliminate
such materials, equipment and programmes, thus ridding itself of all internationally
proscribed weapons.

[Libya] has also decided to limit its missile activities to missiles with a range consistent
with that agreed under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) .5 It will take such
measures in a transparent manner that permits of verification, including immediate
international monitoring.
Furthermore, [Libya] wishes to reaffirm that it considers itself bound by the Treaty on
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,6 the Agreement on Safeguards of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)' and the Convention on Biological Weapons8
and that it accepts any other commitments, including the Additional Protocol to the ZAEA
S a f e g u a r d s ~ e m e ntth~e Chemical Weapons Convention'' and the Biological Weapons
Convention.
[Libya], in its belief that the arms race is conducive neither to its own security nor to
that of the region and runs counter to its strong desire for a world blessed with security
and peace, wishes, through this initiative, to encourage all countries without exception
to follow its example, starting with those of the Middle East region.12
Responding to the Libyan announcement, U.S. President George W. Bush stated:
[Lleaders who abandon the pursuit of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons and
the means to deliver them will find an open path to better relations with the United States
and other free nations.
With today's announcement by its leader, Libya has begun the process of rejoining the
community of nations. And Colonel Qadhafi knows the way forward. Libya should carry
out the commitments announced today. Libya should also fully engage in the war against terror. . . .

As the Libyan government takes these essential steps and demonstrates its seriousness,
its good faith will be returned. Libya can regain a secure and respected place among the
nations and, over time, achieve far better relations with the United States.13

On December 22,2003, the IAEA announced that "Libya has asked the IAEA to ensure
through verification that all of Libya's nuclear activities will henceforth be under safeguards
and exclusively for peaceful purposes," and that "Libya has agreed to take the necessary steps
to conclude an Additional Protocol to its NPT Safeguards Agreement. . . and to pursue with
the IAEA a policy of full transparency and active cooperation. In" 'late December, 2003, the
IAEA director general led an initial IAEA inspection visit to Libya,15 and stated that while Libya
had failed to declare elements of its nuclear weapons program, the program was "in the very
initial stages of development."'~Athte same time, the U.S. administration reportedlywas seeking
to assume responsibility of the Libyan disarmament process from the IAEA, and was planning
to lead a large contingent of U.S. and UK experts to Libya in early 2004." In January
2004, U.S. and IAEA officials reached agreement that U.S. and UK experts would remove
and destroy the components of Libya's nascent nuclear weapons program, whereas the IAEA
would verify Libya's future compliance with its nuclear disarmament commitments."
Separately, on January 14, 2004, Libya ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treatylg and
approved establishment of a treaty-monitoring station in its territory.