Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

Under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's missions used the name people's bureau and the head of the mission was a secretary.

Although oil drastically improved Libya's finances, popular resentment grew as wealth was increasingly concentrated in the hands of the elite.

Libya's use — and heavy loss — of Soviet-supplied weaponry in its war with Chad was a notable breach of an apparent Soviet-Libyan understanding not to use the weapons for activities inconsistent with Soviet objectives.

In 1996, the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act ( ILSA ) was enacted, seeking to penalize non-U. S. companies which invest more than $ 40 million in Libya's oil and gasoline sector in any one year.

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

By 1989 there were signs of a revival of the overseas construction market — the Dong Ah Construction Company signed a US $ 5. 3 billion contract with Libya for the second phase of Libya's Great Man-Made River Project, which, when all five phases were completed, was projected to cost US $ 27 billion.

Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers — a people late regem belloque superbum — kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Libya's downfall.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice explained that this was due to "... Libya's continued commitment to its renunciation of terrorism ".

* In November 1995, a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article alleged Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi ( Muammar Gaddafi's son ) was connected to a currency counterfeiting plan.

After Bokassa's creation of the Council for the Central African Revolution ( in imitation of Libya's government council ), Patassé was named a member of the Council of the Revolution with the rank of Prime Minister in charge of Posts and Communications, Tourism, Water, Forests, Hunting and Fishing, as well as Custodian of the Seats of State ( September 4, 1976 – December 14, 1976 ).

According to Giulio Andreotti ( the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy ) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham ( Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009 ), Craxi was the person who phoned Muammar al-Gaddafi to warn him of the impending Operation El Dorado Canyon air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986, permitting Gaddafi and his family to evacuate their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.

Griffin and Holland tried to enlist the financial aid of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, but the idea was rejected once the Libyans found out about the NF's reputation as fascist ( a quarter of Libya's adult male population was killed by Benito Mussolini's troops during World War II ).

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been criticized after one of his son's companies was found to be producing components for centrifuges purported to be intended for use in Libya's secret uranium enrichment program.

He served as Deputy Director and Director of Foreign Trade at the Ministry of Economy in Libya ; was Director of Marketing of Libya's National Oil Corporation ( NOC ); was Director of Economic Affairs and Under Secretary and Chief Advisor at the Ministry of Petroleum in Libya.

In March 2006, Ghanem was appointed Chairman of Libya's NOC.

He stirred controversy in the interview by repudiating Libya's responsibility both for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the 1984 murder of British WPC Yvonne Fletcher ( who was shot and killed in April 1984 outside the Libyan Embassy in London ).

On 21 March, the flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of Libya to the United Nations and appeared on their official website, and thereafter in late August by the Arab League and by Libya's own telecommunications authority, the Libya Telecom & Technology, on its own website.

Modern Misrata was established around the 7th-century during the beginning of modern Libya's rule by the Islamic Caliphate.

The 59-year-old member of Libya's Revolutionary Committee said he was in the Libyan Embassy in 1984 but " was not at the scene " when the shooting happened.

Tobruk or Tubruq ( Ţubruq ; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Ţubruq, Tobruck and Tubruk ) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt.

The BBC's Rana Jawad in the Mediterranean town of Benghazi says Libya's leader wants them to create a grass-roots movement to press Africa's political leaders to sign up to his vision.

In 1986, the base was a primary target of Operation El Dorado Canyon ( see below ), a US retaliatory strike against Libya for Libyan missile attacks on US aircraft over Libya's claimed territorial waters in the Mediterranean Sea and alleged Libyan involvement in alleged terrorist attacks on US servicemen in Europe.

Libya's partial withdrawal to the Aozou Strip in northern Chad cleared the way for Habré's forces to enter N ’ Djamena in June.

In response to Libya's direct intervention, French and Zairian forces intervened to defend Habré, pushing Libyan and rebel forces north of the 16th parallel.

Berbers, the bulk of Libya's population, have been present throughout the entire history of the country.

All of Libya's Italians were expelled from the North African country in 1970.

The National Transitional Council has pledged to honour Libya's international commitments until the 2012 elections.

They were destined for the General People's Committee for Public Security, effectively Libya's Ministry of the Interior.

The Navy has always been the smallest of Libya's services and has always been dependent on foreign sources for equipment, spare parts, and training.

Since 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had determined Libya's foreign policy.

After the 1969 coup, U. S .- Libyan relations became increasingly strained because of Libya's foreign policies supporting international terrorism and subversion against moderate Arab and African governments.

Libya's relationship with the former Soviet Union involved massive Libyan arms purchases from the Soviet bloc and the presence of thousands of east bloc advisers.

Libya's refusal to comply led to the approval of Security Council Resolution 748 on 31 March 1992, imposing international sanctions on the state designed to bring about Libyan compliance.

Citing Libya's support for terrorism and its past regional aggressions the United States voiced concern over this development.

George Bush also signed an executive order restoring Libya's immunity from terror-related lawsuits and dismissing pending compensation cases.

" UK / Libya relations have significantly improved in recent years, following Libya's voluntary renunciation of WMD.

During the Libyan civil war, Italy terminated relations with Tripoli and recognized the rebel authority in Benghazi as Libya's legitimate representative, effectively starting relations with the Libyan Republic.

The south facing slopes rise steeply from the Mediterranean coastal plain, but slope very gently on the north side towards the Anatolian plateau.

East of Adana, much of the coastal plain has limestone features such as collapsed caverns and sinkholes.

Stretching inland from the Aegean coastal plain, the Central Anatolian plateau occupies the area between the two zones of the folded coastal ranges in the north and south, extending east to the point where the two ranges converge.

The mountains and coastal plain of northern Anatolia experiences humid and mild climate.

Most of the country is a flat coastal plain with mountains in the east and hilly lowland in the west.

flat coastal plain, rises to mountain in east ; hilly lowland in west

These two ranges are bordered on the west by a narrow coastal plain that contains Kampong Saom Bay, which faces the Gulf of Thailand.

Cameroon's coastal plain extends inland from the Gulf of Guinea ( part of the Atlantic Ocean ) to the edge of a plateau.

The low South Cameroon Plateau, rising from the coastal plain and dominated by tropical rain forest, has an average elevation of.

diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north

The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.

Geophysically the city is likewise surrounded by the narrow coastal plain of Vocha, Corinthian Gulf, Corinth Canal, the Isthmus of Corinth, Saronic Gulf, Oneia Mountains, and the monolithic rock of Acrocorinth, where the medieval acropolis was built.

Several east-west trending mountain spurs extend to the narrow coastal plain, which is studded with sea cliffs and has level stretches no wider than.

The northern third of Sinai is a flat, sandy coastal plain, which extends from the Suez Canal into the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.

A narrow plain extends from the coastal volcanic range to the Pacific Ocean.

A coastal plain, western lowlands, and some 350 islands comprise the remainder of Eritrea's land mass.

dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains

Population distribution is very uneven: the population is concentrated on the small southwestern coastal plain.

Grenada's landmass rises from a narrow, coastal plain in a generally north-south trending axis of ridges and narrow valleys.

generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior

The terrain of Guinea-Bissau is mostly low coastal plain with swamps of Guinean mangroves rising to Guinean forest-savanna mosaic in the east.

: Mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east

The central part of the Caribbean lowlands, east of La Ceiba, is a narrow coastal plain only a few kilometers wide.