Gaddafi looks to shed Libya’s pariah status
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday said he wanted to quickly shed his country’s pariah status and re-join the international community.
Mr Gaddafi held a 45-minute meeting with Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog.
IAEA officials are on a two-day trip of some of Libya’s nuclear facilities.
Two weeks ago, Mr Gaddafi pledged to scrap Libya’s secret nuclear weapons programme and rid the country of weapons of mass destruction.
A spokesman for ElBaradei said the Libyan leader reaffirmed his decision to fully co-operate with the IAEA.
Libya was internationally ostracised for the terror strike on Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, which killed 270 people.
