The Libyan government has accredited a U.S. diplomat who is on temporary duty there to help monitor Libya’s promise to eliminate unconventional weapons, the State Department said Tuesday. The diplomat is the first to be accredited by Libya since relations were broken more than 20 years ago. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher expressed optimism about the possibility that exchanges of diplomats with Libya will become routine. "We’re going to have people in Tripoli on a regular and ongoing basis and I expect that sooner or later, probably sooner, the Libyans will have diplomats in Washington," he said. Boucher said the U.S. diplomat currently in Libya is attached to the Belgian Embassy, which has been handling U.S. interests in Libya since relations were severed late in the Carter administration.
Maybe the O-club at Wheelus will open this year?
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