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Libya: Tripoli International
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For many years, due to political restrictions, Libya was a difficult country to visit. Today... the political leadership has begun to reach out to other international leaders, and, in turn, the country has opened its doors to foreign travelers.
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Libya has taken significant steps to mend its international image and formally renounced terrorism in a letter to the UN Security Council in August 2003. In 1999, the Libyan government surrendered two Libyans suspected of involvement in the Pan Am 103 bombing, leading to the suspension of UN sanctions. On January 31, 2001, a Scottish court seated in the Netherlands found one of the suspects, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, guilty of murder in connection with the bombing, and acquitted the second suspect, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhima. Megrahi's conviction was upheld on March 14, 2002, but an appeals hearing was granted in June 2007 by the Scottish High Court.
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Farming is severely limited by the small amount of fertile soil and the lack of rainfall, and Libya must import about 75% of its food. The chief agricultural products are wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus fruit, vegetables, peanuts, and soybeans. Large numbers of cattle, sheep, and goats are raised. Most of the arable land is located in Tripolitania. To increase the amount of cultivatable land, a massive water development project, called “The Great Manmade River,†was begun in 1984. It is designed to carry water from underground aquifers in the Sahara through a 2,400 mi (3,862 km) pipeline system to irrigate 313 sq mi (811 sq km) in the coastal region.
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Wednesday, 5 November, 2003: Libya said yesterday it planned to sign new upstream oil deals with non-US companies in the next few months, rather than save projects for US oil majors in the hope that Washington lifts unilateral sanctions. "We are in negotiations with some companies and we will sign regardless of the US sanctions," Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem said at the Oil and Money conference in London. Tripoli is hoping to attract up to $30 billion of investment to boost oil and gas export revenues by 2010, Ghanem said. [Bahrain Tribune]
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Libya is divided into three natural regions. The largest, to the east of the Gulf of Sidra, is Cyrenaica, occupying the plateau of Jabal al Akhḑar. To the west of the Gulf of Sidra lies the agricultural region of Tripolitania. Hundreds of miles to the south, in southwestern Libya, is the basin of Fezzan.
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(Note that in ancient Greece, Libya is used in a broader meaning, encompassing all of North Africa west of Egypt. The three traditional parts of the country are Tripolitania, Fezzan and the Cyrenaica.) In Greek mythology, Dido came from Libya.
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