Word: tripoli
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...necessary? For starters, because of Gaddafi's central role in Sarkozy's most dramatic diplomatic coup in his six-month presidency: the success last July in winning the release of six Bulgarian medics held on trumped-up murder charges by Tripoli. All that left even some Sarkozy allies inclined to interpret Gaddafi's visit at least in part as a quid pro quo. "The Bulgarian medics were certainly worth a visit," argued former conservative French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...swirled in its wake that he'd not only stolen the thunder from nearly completed European Union efforts to secure the Bulgarian's liberty, but had done so by paying millions of dollars in "compensation" to Libya. At around this time France also cut military and energy deals with Tripoli. A parliamentary panel continues to investigate the details behind French negotiations with Libya, and get a full accounting of what agreements were actually made. Many now wonder whether any deals were cut by Sarkozy with Déby to earn the release of the seven initial Zoe's Ark suspects...
Lately, those messages have included explanations of why he will stay in Paris when the government and other rebel leaders sit down to talk in Tripoli. "To go ahead without him is very, very difficult," says Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council in New York City and co-author of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War. "It will certainly undermine the legitimacy of whatever is agreed there...
...while the government has agreed to attend the talks in Tripoli, from his refuge in Paris Abdulwahid El-Nur is refusing to go. "I don't care about the peace talks at all," he says angrily. "We are working for real peace...
...president, Jean-Claude Trichet - for not shaping policy to French economic considerations. Similarly, just how good a European was Sarkozy being when he preempted years of effort by Brussels to secure the freedom of Bulgarian medics held by Libya in order to cut a deal of his own with Tripoli? Sarkozy did a marvelous job restoring relations between Paris and Washington, but were the military and nuclear deals France signed with Libya really in the best interests of the Atlantic alliance...