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France to Provide Libya With Nuclear Power

Newspaper current event by willwaddell on 27 July 2007, tagged as worldaffairs

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent deal with Libya to build a nuclear reactor in the North African nation has drawn fire, especially from Green parties around Europe. Coming in the train of the international row concerning five nurses and a doctor accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV, France's agreement to provide Libya with nuclear technology is being derided as a misstep that effectively exchanged the medics, who had been sentenced to death in Libya, for nuclear technology. Greenpeace has attacked the deal and a French Green Party MP has said "[Sarkozy] is running grave risks for the planet. And he is running the risk of turning France into the supplier of military nuclear capacity to some absolutely unacceptable regimes." German Green politicians are likewise upset, some decrying it as facilitating an eventual Libyan nuclear arsenal. A spokesman for President Sarkozy interpreted the deal as meaning "a country that respects international rules can obtain civilian nuclear energy." In other comments Sarkozy made it clear that he believes helping countries like Libya develop is key to combatting "terrorism and fanaticism." The US has said, at least initially, it has no objections with the arrangement.

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