Envoy to U.K.
NZPA-Reuter London Britain said yesterday it has approved the appointment of a Libyan envoy to London, the first since it broke off ties with Tripoli and expelled its diplomats over the shooting of a British policewoman. A Foreign Office spokesman said a career diplomat Salah Eddin Mahdi Msalam, now serving in Denmark, was issued with a visa, but it was not yet known when he would take up his duties. The announcement came a day after the release of
two of six Britons detained in Libya since the April 17 shooting. Policewoman Yvonne Fletches, who was 25, died in a hail of bullets sprayed from the windows of Libya’s London mission into a crowd of Libyans demonstrating against the Tripoli leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. The British Government let the mystery killer go at the end of an 11-day police siege because of diplomatic immunity rules, but ail 30 staff in the building at the time were expelled.
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