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Switzerland, Libya negotiate businessman's return

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The foreign ministers of Switzerland and Spain were in Libya on Sunday hoping to bring home a Swiss businessman stranded there for nearly two years and draw a line under a damaging diplomatic row.

 

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey and her Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos - whose country holds the European Union presidency - flew into Tripoli soon after midnight and were in talks with Libyan officials. (Reuters)

 

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