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Libya Backtracks on Oil Sanctions Against Swiss
Looks like Mo was just making noise, as usual.July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Libya backtracked on a threat to stop oil shipments to Switzerland following a dispute over the two-day detention of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's son by Geneva police, Swiss Petroleum Union Director Rolf Hartl said. ``There were no sanctions,'' Hartl said in a telephone interview from Zurich. ``A tanker loaded with 80,000 tons of crude for Switzerland left Libya yesterday, as planned.'' Libya's state-run tanker company on July 24 said it would stop carrying oil to Switzerland following the July 15 arrest in Geneva of Hannibal Qaddafi and his wife after two employees of the couple filed a complaint accusing them of mistreatment. Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-30 |
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