Libya has finally returned to the fold of Arab countries, even hosting last week’s Arab League summit in Sirte, the hometown of Colonel Muammar Qadafi. Since it joined the League of Arab States in 1953, Libya had never hosted one of its summits.
In his usual role as the “voice of the masses”, Col Qadafi triggered the first crisis before the summit even officially began. A few days before the opening, he received tribal and non-governmental delegations from Sudan, Jordan, Mauritania and Iraq, who called on him to “make the summit more effective” according to state TV.
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