Press Release: EU-Libya: negotiations on future Framework Agreement start

Libya and the EU start negotiations on the EU-Libya Framework Agreement on 13 November, 2008. European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, joined by the EU Presidency, will formally launch the negotiations in a meeting with the Libyan representatives led by Abdulati Elobeidi, Secretary for European Affairs, and Mohamed Tahar Siala, Deputy Secretary at the General People Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation of Libya. The future agreement will establish the framework of the relations between the EU and Libya.