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- February 11, 2011, 03:12:23 AMCharles Poncet, a Geneva lawyer acting for the Libyan government,You are not allowed to view links.
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Four days after the arrest Libya also detained two employees of engineering company ABB Ltd. — Max Goeldi and Rachid Hamdani — for alleged breaches of immigration rules. Swiss media have described them as "hostages" that Tripoli was using to force an apology from Switzerland.
"Everybody knows that Merz got his marching orders from the business lobby,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, fed up with seeing all the juicy Libyan contracts going to other people,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," he said.
The apology was heavily criticized in the Swiss media, but welcomed by companies eager to do business in the oil-rich North African country.
Tripoli cut business and diplomatic ties with the Alpine nation after Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife were arrested July 15, 2008, in a Geneva luxury hotel for allegedly beating up two of their servants. The servants later withdrew their complaint after receiving compensation from an undisclosed source.
Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz defended his apology to Libya for the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, saying Friday it was the only way to secure the release of two Swiss citizens detained by Tripoli.
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Merz and Libyan Prime Minister al-BaYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginadi Ali al-Mahmoudi signed an accord Thursday pledging to restore relations between the two countries and to have Gadhafi's arrest examined by a joint arbitration tribunal in London.
"My mission was to ensure that we can work through what happened in Geneva, to get the two Swiss out of Libya — that was my primary aim," Merz told reporters in the capital Bern.
Swiss president defends apology in Libya dispute
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Four days after the arrest Libya also detained two employees of engineering company ABB Ltd. — Max Goeldi and Rachid Hamdani — for alleged breaches of immigration rules. Swiss media have described them as "hostages" that Tripoli was using to force an apology from Switzerland.
"Everybody knows that Merz got his marching orders from the business lobby,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, fed up with seeing all the juicy Libyan contracts going to other people,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," he said.
The apology was heavily criticized in the Swiss media, but welcomed by companies eager to do business in the oil-rich North African country.
Tripoli cut business and diplomatic ties with the Alpine nation after Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife were arrested July 15, 2008, in a Geneva luxury hotel for allegedly beating up two of their servants. The servants later withdrew their complaint after receiving compensation from an undisclosed source.
Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz defended his apology to Libya for the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, saying Friday it was the only way to secure the release of two Swiss citizens detained by Tripoli.
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Merz and Libyan Prime Minister al-BaYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginadi Ali al-Mahmoudi signed an accord Thursday pledging to restore relations between the two countries and to have Gadhafi's arrest examined by a joint arbitration tribunal in London.
"My mission was to ensure that we can work through what happened in Geneva, to get the two Swiss out of Libya — that was my primary aim," Merz told reporters in the capital Bern.