British Prime Minister to meet Libya's Muammar Gaddafi

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the United Nations on Thursday, which is the first meeting since the release of the lockerbie bomber.

According to a report by the Daily Telegraph on Monday, UK's Gordon Brown will have a sit down with Gaddafi. The meeting will focus on the relations between the two states and to bring attention to Gaddafi's decision to end Libya's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in 2003, which lead to better relations with western nations, reports Reuters. Relations between the UK and Libya have been under the media spotlight since allegations were made that the Scottish government released the Lockerbie bomber in order to strengthen business ties with Libya, which has Africa's largest oil reserves. The Daily Telegraph also suggests that Britain will have its best year ever for arms exports to Libya. In the first quarter of 2009, Britain earned £9.4 million, compared to £14.4 for the entire year of 2008. Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrats Foreign Affairs spokesperson, criticized Brown’s meeting with Gaddafi, “If Gordon Brown hadn’t noticed; Colonel Gaddafi still runs a brutal, human rights-suppressing authoritarian regime.” Scotland released Abdel Basset al-Megrahi Megrahi because he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and was terminally ill. Megrahi's actions killed 270 people in 1999 on the Lockerbie airliner.