After an absence of 10 years, France has authorized the resumption of air traffic between Paris and Tripoli with an inaugural ceremony to be held in Paris on Feb 25. Libya says that Paris will be the first of several European capitals where it will re-establish air service this year, with a view to resuming its economic relations with Europe, and eventually perhaps the rest of the world, part of a process that it recently attempted to encourage when it announced on Jan 14 the devaluation of its national currency and reduction of customs duties.
A high-level Libyan representative is to be sent by Col Moammar Qadhafi for the inauguration, perhaps his son Al-Saadi. Regular weekly service by Libyan Arab Airlines on Thursdays is to begin on Feb 28.
Is Qadaffi a thug? Or is he a reformed thug? He still scares me. |