Libyan PM thanks Malta

Mr Peter Barbara

Nov 11th 2011, 10:55

Tafu tapprezzaw xi haga tajba minghajr ma toqghodu toholqu polemici mix-xejn u tivvintaw hafna affarijiet ??

Anthony Farrugia

Nov 11th 2011, 10:30

Some of the comments remind me of the colonialist mantra that the world owes us a living !

Joe Vella

Nov 11th 2011, 08:47

@ Tony Dalli

It wasn't Dom Mintoff the first western leader that went to China. For the record it was Canada's Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Canada opened Diplomatic relations with China prior to Malta doing so.

If you where to say that Dom Mintoff alleviated the western world and associated him self with the brutal regimes and the dictatorial regimes of those days, then you would be correct.

B Cassar

Nov 11th 2011, 08:00

You're welcome Mr. libya PM. But now we don't need the thank you but to close your ports to illegal immigrants so they dont leave anymore. We have enough problems. That action would be appreciated and would really signify your thank you to us is real. Otherwise thank you is just a simple word used to clear your obligations towards us. We don't need thank you words, we need thank you actions = No more illegal immigrants departing from libya and some oil please. I'm sure it would be a good payment for the hospital time and resources we have spent on libyans durig the turmoil.

Wenzu Vella

Nov 11th 2011, 07:39

Do all these thank you messages and congratulations really mean anything? I do not think so, they are just PR and a lot of hot air.
It would have been a very good gesture if the US offered Malta a couple of well advanced search and rescue helicopters with the hand shake of thanks. The cost of these helicopters is just a minuscule amount considering the 800+ billion US dollars military budget.
Malta soon knows how much these thank you messages mean when the real jostling for doing business with Libya begins. I hope Dr Gonzi and co do not get trampled in the stampede.

D. Xerri

Nov 10th 2011, 23:08

Libyan PM thanks Malta
OK Thankyou for Your ThankYous !
Can you please ease the burden on Maltese tax-payers by employing at least 1000 of the thousands unemployed for several years in Malta - Im sure Libya needs so many many employees right now - Thats what Malta so badly needs JOBS !!

Joe Grech

Nov 10th 2011, 21:55

What about Libya helping us Maltese to build a better Malta?
Can we now actually begin looking for oil? Remember an election is on the horizon so voters need to be offered a carrot or two - as has repeatedly been happening in Malta for decades!

David Pisani

Nov 10th 2011, 19:58

May be we should ask the Libyan Prime Minister what is going on in Libya. Various reports are showing that a lot of people are being tortured, killed and others raped. Long live the revolution!

Paul Saliba

Nov 10th 2011, 19:26

it will be a good idea to visit libya even for a few hours. the libyans are already disappointed that airmalta is hasitating to operate. it is true that the country is not yet stable but those who are already visiting the country will sure be appreciated.

D Bonello

Nov 10th 2011, 19:16

Enough with the thank yous.....Now tell us we can dig for oil.....Stop the boat people from reaching our shores and start giving us oil at a cheap price.

Tony Dalli

Nov 10th 2011, 19:02

There are those people that dwell on historical; others dwell on current affairs that a minute passed becomes recent history. Then there are those that ponder on future possibilities. In today's age things happen so fast that requires every bit of attention - so let’s thing and concentrate on present moments.

Some may recall when Dom Mintoff went to China - the first western leader to have done so - and was demonized. He was followed by Richard Nixon who was hailed as a hero.

oliver mallia

Nov 10th 2011, 18:53

The best thank you that Libya can give to Malta is to take away the illegal immigrants

G Mangion

Nov 10th 2011, 18:40

Dr.Gonzi Malta's P.M, Did not hesitate to help Libya in the uprising of the Freedom fighters months ago, and was Praised by all international Countries, Thanked by the way the P.M handled that complex situation, So why the heck should He think Twice to accept such an Invitation ???

G. Mangion.

Charles J. Buttigieg

Nov 10th 2011, 18:36

We've done our bit. We should now keep quiet,wait for developments and act according to the results when they come about. I have no doubt that Mr. Abel Rahim al-Kib, Libya's Prime Minister pretenders would be calling on all EU Leaders conveying the same massage.

silvio loporto

Nov 10th 2011, 18:16

May I suggest that Dr.Gonzi thinks it over before accepting this invitation,by the Libyan primeminister.

History tends to repeat itself,and what might look like a good idea now,might be interpreted differently in a few years time

In the past 40 years,we had ministers and Primeministers from both parties,visiting Gaddafi,and we applauded those visits. Unfortunatly, as things turned out, both parties have had a fieldday, one accusing the other on the realionship they had with the Gaddafi regime, and what seemed good in those days, is being made to look as something dissgraceful today.

So give it some more time.

Peter Murray

Nov 10th 2011, 18:05

This Prime Minister was elected into office by an unelected body -the NTC.So unless and until free and fair election process is available to the Libyan people ,and adopted and complied with, true democracy and freedom of choice remains subjunctive.As presently , this unelected by the people PM is not yet deserving of this title.

MALCOLM SEYCHELL

Nov 10th 2011, 17:58

Freedom and democracy with sharia law.................. Libya will go 100 years backwards