U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that she hoped to visit Libya soon a day after Tripoli's release of six foreign medics sentenced for life imprisonment for infecting children with HIV.
"I don't have any days or plans but I certainly hope to visit Libya," Rice told Radio Sawa, the US-funded Arabic-language broadcaster. "I sincerely hope that I will be able to visit there soon."
Rice made the remarks also after French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Tripoli Wednesday for talks with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.
"Libya made an important strategic decision to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction," Rice said. "As a result, it has put itself on a path that is leading to investment in Libya by western companies, which could not invest there before. I know that American companies are very interested in working in Libya."
The State Department said Tuesday that the release of six Bulgarian medical workers imprisoned in Libya was a "very positive development," and will improve Libya's ties with the world.
The six had been sentenced to death, a ruling later commuted to life in prison, by a Libyan court, which said they had deliberately infected children with HIV. After the sentence was reduced, Tripoli allowed them to serve their term in Bulgaria, where the president immediately pardoned them.
Source: Xinhua
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