Libya halting fuel supplies to Switzerland

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

TRIPOLI (AFP) — OPEC member Libya said on Thursday it will halt fuel supplies to key oil client Switzerland in the latest reprisal for last week's brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.

The General National Maritime Transport Company and the Port Authority said in a joint statement they had "decided to halt Libyan oil tankers carrying oil products to Switzerland."

The state-run companies also decided to "bar Swiss ships from unloading or entering Libyan ports," it added.

An official with the transport company told AFP the decision was taken on Wednesday but was unable to say if it had yet been enforced.

A Swiss delegation met Libyan officials at the foreign ministry in Tripoli in a bid to defuse tensions, diplomatic...