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Chemical Weapons Inspectors to Visit Libya This Week
Libya is set Thursday to allow international inspectors to visit its chemical weapons sites, according to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees the Chemical Weapons Convention. The inspectors will work to secure and destroy Libyan chemical weapons and to verify Libya’s continued compliance with the treaty that ban possession of such weapons (see GSN, Feb. 2; Stephen Fidler, Financial Times, Feb. 3). Meanwhile, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns and British officials are scheduled to meet with senior Libyan officials in London Friday, according to the Washington Post. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss how to reward Libya for its cooperation so far in dismantling its WMD programs, the Post reported. One possible measure is an end to the U.S. ban on travel to Libya once the dismantlement is completed, U.S. officials said. U.S. Defense Department officials, however, are reluctant to agree to other possible measures, and are opposed to removing Libya from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring countries, according to the Post. “There’s a cold wind blowing on a number of forward-leaning, reciprocal moves that we thought we’d queued up. And there’s outright opposition to removing Libya from the list of the state sponsors of terrorism,” a well-placed U.S. official said (Robin Wright, Washington Post, Feb. 3).
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