http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/25/france.libya.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText
The article I reade is about French President Nicolas Sarkozy meeting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to deepen relations after helping to resolve a diplomatic standoff that hurt the oil exporter's ties with the West. Libyan officials said the two countries would sign an accord on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership and another to activate previous agreement on cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.There will be the signing of an agreement on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership.
Reading international news articles helps me to learn not only about what is going on in the world I am living now but also to learn about the history, the past that causes the status of its present and future. It gives readers a breif history of the past relationship between Libya -French and other nations. Lybia ended decades of international isolation in 2003 when it agreed to halt a weapons program prohibited by the United Nations and pay compensation for the bombing of a U.S. airliner over Scotland in 1988 in which 270 people were killed.French-Libyan relations, which had been warm in the 1970s, hit a low during the UTA dispute and French officials spoke of a new era after the compensation deal.
To be honest, I am caught between two different thoughts. I feel happy for these two nations signing of an agreement on cooperation on a military-industrial partnership, further promoting the world peace. However, I keep doubting whether deepening relationship between Libiya and Frece is truly fair for both sides. I know that France has a nuclear along with England, Russia, the US, China). Why is it acceptable for some countries like France to have nuclear weapons but not other countries? I wonder whose interest this meeting is based on.
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I have always wondered about that too (with the nuclear weapons). It seems to be just another form of imperialism towards these countries. That is why they want to create nuclear weapons, because they are attempting to even out the playing field, and of course the "imperialist" countries don't want that. In some ways it can be a form of "ransom" as well, in which these countries agree to dismantle their nuclear weapons if the US or Europe agrees to give them aid money. It begs the question of why not just use the money they used on the nuclear weapons to aid their country to begin with?
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