Areva acknowledges "preliminary contacts" with Libya for reactor

[bananas]

Source: Platts

Areva acknowledges "preliminary contacts" with Libya for reactor

London (Platts)--25Jul2007

Areva acknowledged "preliminary contacts" with Libya for a power reactor, but
denied any connection between those talks and the July 24 liberation of five
Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had been held in a Libyan prison
for more than eight years.

The medics had been sentenced to execution, later changed to life
imprisonment, on what European officials saw as trumped-up charges of
inoculating over 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus. After announcement
that the medics had been repatriated to Bulgaria, pardoned and freed, the
French antinuclear network Sortir du Nucleaire issued a press statement
denouncing what it called an "irresponsible...nuclear bargain" under which
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was instrumental in the nurses'
liberation, had allegedly promised nuclear technology cooperation to Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi.

An Areva spokesman said July 24 that Libya "did contact us" in 2006 about
various areas including nuclear power, and that there had been "exploratory
discussions" about cooperation, including in management of Libyan uranium
stocks. But he said the European Commission/French mission to rescue the
medics had nothing to do with that issue.

Sarkozy is expected in Tripoli for a state visit July 25.



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[displacedtexan]

1. Guess who works for (runs) Areva.

Spencer Abraham.

And now, Abraham is running Hollywood Fred's campaign.

Curiouser & curiouser.

[ohio2007]

2. the 'criminal' doctors have been released,the embargo has been lifted

Libya and French EADS unit sign 168 mln eur arms deal

Libya has signed a contract with France to buy Milan anti-tank missiles worth 168 mln eur,
snip
Libya also signed a contract with EADS for a Tetra radio communications system in a separate deal worth 128 mln eur,
snip
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/08/02/afx3982395.html
who really owns EADS