Italy and France are not engaged in a colonial-style battle to seize Libya's riches, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in an interview with Rai radio.
"There's not a race to arrive first in Libya," Frattini said, rejecting allegations in Italian newspapers of a competition between the two countries for the best contracts in a post-Gathafi Libya.
"We are forgetting that the protagonists are the Libyan people," he said, adding: "unlike many other European countries, Italy has asked pardon for the faults of the colonial past" and "does not want to fall back into temptation." More...
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"There's not a race to arrive first in Libya," Frattini said, rejecting allegations in Italian newspapers of a competition between the two countries for the best contracts in a post-Gathafi Libya.
"We are forgetting that the protagonists are the Libyan people," he said, adding: "unlike many other European countries, Italy has asked pardon for the faults of the colonial past" and "does not want to fall back into temptation." More...
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