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- Canada's Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd is
finalizing an oil exploration venture in Libya. (Reuters, 10/10/97)
- Russia announced that it is renewing nuclear
cooperation with Libya and has agreed to rehabilitate the Soviet-built Tajura
nuclear research center near Tripoli. (Journal of Commerce, 10/27/97)
- South African President Nelson Mandela presented
South Africa's highest award for a foreigner to Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi
and urged the United Nations to lift sanctions on Tripoli. (AP, 10/23/97, 10/29/97)
- The Arab League declared regrettable the renewal
of U.N. sanctions against Libya (Agence France-Presse, 11/9/97)
- President Clinton removed Syria and Lebanon
from the list of drug-producing countries despite objections from officials within the
Administration who argued that progress in the two countries was insufficient to merit the
change. (The Washington Post, 11/11/97)
- European Ambassadors returned to Teheran
after having left Iran in April 1997 following Germany's finding that senior Iranian
leaders ordered and directed the assassination of Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. (Reuters,
11/22/97)
- Russia initiated negotiations with Syria
aimed at selling Syria a nuclear research reactor. (Ha'aretz, 12/31/97)
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