Gonzi to meet Libyan PM in Tripoli on Monday

carl Tanti

Nov 25th 2011, 01:01

int taf xit tajd man ....................

mark borg

Nov 24th 2011, 19:30

As if our Prime Minister gives a penny on pro Ghaddafi or non Ghaddafi followers , he is just after some cheap oil deal and free publicity (maybe pre election) would mild things up amongst his ex PN followers . After all he was the last western leader to be seen smooching in public with Gahddaf just 2 weeks pre the revolution.

Mr Anthony Briffa

Nov 24th 2011, 18:15

Am I to understand that in your comment there is a smack of satisfaction about this report on yahoo. The Libyans suffered for 42 years under Gaddafi, got killed and maimed to achieve freedom, and I can assure you that they will not allow anybody to take it away from them again. It is an open secret that a good number of Maltese lackeys would have preferred that the change did not take place as they were on the take, for some reason or another, from the regime. The game is over.

T Gauci

Nov 24th 2011, 19:50

@Mr Anthony Briffa

The Libyans did not suffer under gaddafi in fact they benefited from gaddafi's regime. The sole reason why NATO stepped in is because of gaddafi's plan to introduce gold backed currency and gold for oil.

Angus Black

Nov 24th 2011, 20:16

Mr Micallef, your question should read: "will the banks lend money to Maltese entrepreneurs to start a business in Libya irrespective of the risks?"

Will the banks slap their own faces by being irresponsible enough to lend money when risks still exist? If businesses have local suitable assets to offer as collateral against loans, then the banks have no reason not to lend them money.

Our banks did not require any bailouts like their foreign counterparts, simply because they were prudent and conservative in their lending practices.

TONY FORMOSA

Nov 24th 2011, 17:34

* What does that mean? That our PM should decline the invitation and discuss possibilities of businesses and investments?

TONY FORMOSA
TONY FORMOSA

Mr Anthony Briffa

Nov 24th 2011, 18:07

Do you mean that Gaddafi's was an elected regime? The men who formed the NTC are heroes with what they achieved, and the current government is paving the way for a constitution and free elections. What is your problem about an unelected PM. We had that experience here in Malta back in 1981-1987 when Mintoff/KMB usurped power although they lost the election through jerrymandering.

H. Psaila

Nov 24th 2011, 19:46

@ Anthony Briffa - Well said and I agree 100% with your comments. Some people either don't know or forgot that Gadaffi took power from King Idris wayback in 1969, therefore he was totally illegitimate.

Peter Murray

Nov 24th 2011, 20:30

The simple indisputable fact of the matter is that the NTC (and incidentally they have also been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity)are not an democratically elected body (heroes or not)and that the Libyan PM was elected by this body post Gaddafi -ergo he is not a democractically elected leader just like Gaddafi..I made nor insinuated comparisons (least of all to Gaddafi) and made no suggestions and like the Gaddafi regime we(successive governments for 42 years) also gadarenely rushed to do business and invest with him didn't we!) merely pointed out an immutable fact ,whilst stating the age old adage of two wrongs will never make one right. So unless and until these pledged free and fair elections materialise and democracy and human rights are in place and seen to be in place then the present regime have not yet fulfilled these noble aims and objectives and are in power but not via any known or accepted democractic process and that is inarguably that -nothing more and nothing less.