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Libya does not appear to be any closer to joining the treaty despite some positive indicators in 2004 and 2005 of a new willingness to consider accession. The President of the National Program for Mine Clearance and Land Reclamation stated in a letter to Protection, an Egyptian NGO, that if Libya joined the treaty it would be obliged to clear all of its territory, which would require too much money and human resources and would negatively affect development in Libya.[1]
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Libya is vast, unique and, most relevantly, open for business. Lovers of classical ruins will be in their element amid the Greek temples, Roman theatres, statues and mosaics of Leptis Magna, Sabratha and Cyrene, while the merely curious now have the opportunity to explore this extraordinary country after years of self-imposed isolation.
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COUNTRY DESCRIPTION: Officially known as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Libya has a developing economy. Islamic ideals and beliefs provide the conservative foundation of the country's customs, laws, and practices. Tourist facilities are not widely available. Read theDepartment of State Background Notes on Libyafor more information.
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Libya currently has electric power production capacity of about 4.7 gigawatts (GW). Most of Libya's existing power stations are being converted from oil to natural gas, and new power plants built to run on natural gas, in large part to maximize the volume of oil available for export purposes. Libya is ... looking at potential wind and solar projects, particularly in remote regions where it is impractical to extend the power grid.
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Under a 2003 agreement, Libya took responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and agreed to a settlement with the families to avoid going to trial. While 80 percent of the settlement has been paid, the remaining 20 percent was to be paid to the families upon Libya's removal from the list of designated state sponsors of terror. On May 12, 2006, President Bush started the 45 day process to remove Libya from the list. Since then, Libya has made no public comment on their intent to pay. The families have been urging the Bush Administration and the State Department to take an active role in pressuring the Libyans to live up to the commitment they made and resolve this issue.
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In 1981, two Libyan fighter planes attacked U.S. forces on maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra (which Libya claims as national waters) and were shot down. Libya's relations with the United States became even more hostile when it began to support international terrorist organizations. The United States placed a ban on Libyan oil imports in 1982. In 1986, in an apparent attempt to kill Qaddafi, U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered air strikes against Tripoli and Benghazi in retaliation for the Libyan-sponsored terrorist attack in West Berlin that had killed two American servicemen. Libya's attempts in the mid-1980s to form a union with Algeria and Tunisia, while not successful, resulted (1989) in the Arab Maghreb Union (see Maghreb).
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