Blair hails 'new relationship' with Libya

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today said that Libya had given “full and transparent co-operation” in the dismantling of its weapons of mass destruction programmes since Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s historic declaration last December that he was giving up illicit arms.

Speaking in the Libyan capital Tripoli following talks with Colonel Gaddafi, Mr Blair said progress on arms meant it was time for “a new relationship” with the former pariah state.