A visit by Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadafy to European Union headquarters next week is aimed at a full restoration of normal relations, the European Commission said today.
"His visit to the Commission marks Colonel Gadafy's first visit to Europe for many years, preparing the ground for a full normalisation of relations between Libya and the European Union," the Commission said in a statement. Particular attention would be paid to outstanding issues, it added.
These include a dispute with Germany over compensation for victims of a 1986 nightclub bombing in west Berlin and over the fate of six Bulgarian medics, detained in Tripoli since 1999 on charges they deliberately infected hundreds of children with the HIV virus