Gordon Brown meets Colonel Gaddafi
Updated on 10 July 2009
Gordon Brown has met controversial Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi for bilateral talks at the G8 summit.
The talks behind closed doors are believed to be the first time the Prime Minister has met Gaddafi, who was an international pariah for many years after the Lockerbie bombing, for which Libya was blamed.
After a working breakfast, the two men will be joined by the other G8 leaders as well as leaders of Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa.
The Prime Minister invited the Libyan leader to an energy summit in London last year, but he did not attend.
Mr Brown's predecessor Tony Blair famously flew to Libya in 2004 for talks in Gaddafi's tent, after the Libyan leader had given up his country's weapons of mass destruction and accepted responsibility for Lockerbie.
On Thursday night, Gaddafi shook hands with US president Barack Obama as he attended the summit in his role as president of the African Union.
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