Libya–Vanuatu relations

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Libya-Vanuatu relations
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Libya–Vanuatu relations refer to foreign relations between Vanuatu and Libya.

History

They established official diplomatic relations in 1986, at the initiative of the former. The aim, for Vanuatu, was twofold: first, to obtain access to favourable economic relations with a major

United States
were strained at the time.

Vanuatu condemned the

CIA is involved in all sorts of similar activities. In Nicaragua, the Americans are supporting terrorists."[1]

In 1987, several ni-Vanuatu received "security training" in Libya at their government's request, prompting concern from Bob Hawke's government in Australia. Australia also expressed discomfort at the possible opening of a Libyan embassy in Vanuatu.[2][3][4][5]

The country's relations with Libya proved politically contentious in Vanuatu, including within the ruling

People's Bureau in Port Vila.[3]

Lini lost office in 1991, and his successors did little to maintain Libyan–ni-Vanuatu relations, which thereafter all but lapsed.[1][6]

In September 2011, Vanuatu was one of 114 states to vote in favour of awarding Libya's seat in the United Nations to the

2011 Libyan civil war.[7]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 2-7099-1125-6
    , pp.272–282
  2. ^ a b "Diplomacy Washing Libya Out of Their Hair", Time, June 1, 1987
  3. ^ a b "The USSR and its proxies in a volatile South Pacific" Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, Rubenstein, Colin, The Heritage Foundation
  4. ^ "AUSTRALIA OUSTS LIBYAN DIPLOMATS; Libya's Moves Incite Fear", New York Times, May 20, 1987
  5. ISBN 1-86373-965-3
    , p.279
  6. ISBN 0-8248-2048-7
    , pp.25-6
  7. ^ "After Much Wrangling, General Assembly Seats National Transitional Council of Libya as Country’s Representative for Sixty-Sixth Session", United Nations, September 16, 2011
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