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African nations to lead the UN Human Rights Commission. Libya is smart, it decided to review its policy on the western nations. Since Libya accepted the responsibility for the Lockerbie airliner bombing in 2003, the US has been working more closely with Libya and developing a friendly relationship. Since the acceptance of the responsibility, Libya and Western Nations began to have more diplomatic contact and is now working out several of their past grievances and issues.

More recently, this month (August 2008) Libya announced that it will sign a free trade accord with the European Union and has already entered into talks with Italy, Belarus, Belgium, Britain and Canada. Since its warming of ties with Western nations, Libya has come out of diplomatic isolation and economic stagnation and is emerging as a powerful voice in the mainstream of international politics. But some suspect that the friendly relations with Libya comes because of the cheap oil that Libya is willing to sell to its western friends. Currently Libya exports over 1.34 Million oil barrels per day and oil buys friends.

So as of 2006, US restored full diplomatic and trade links with Libya. Of course, Libya's dismantling of weapons of mass destruction in 2003 helped justify this but the new US-Iranian chess match has contributed to the sudden warming of relations with Libya. But is Libya ready?

Some say they are. They are becoming one of the closest allies of US from the Arab states and is exporting alot of oil to the West. With a bit more foreign investments, Libya promises to be capable of exporting more than enough oil to lower the price on the markets. So having a newly developing nation becoming head of the UN is good?

I think not. Libya is still controlled by a dictator and has numerous political, civilian, social and economic issues that need to be dealt with internally. A dictator leading a world that is majority of Democracies does not make sense at all. What is even more suspicious is the sudden change of heart in the Libyan leadership. Why would a nation that hated the west and supported terrorist organizations all of a sudden kick out those organizations and ally with the west within a time gap of only 2 years. In fact, Libyan leader Qaddafi at one point said "I have no time to lose with Arabs" when most of his subjects consider themselves as African-Arabs.

But more important, the issues Libya so stubbornly refused to acknowledge or cooperate with, Libya is now thinking over. Libya for example

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