US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday she would go to Libya soon after the signing of a compensation deal for American victims of Libyan attacks in the 1980s and US reprisals. The agreement was by top US and Libyan officials in Tripoli on Thursday after a series of high level meetings. "A lot of this is coming to completion after a good deal of work and I look forward to go to Libya" ... I hope to go soon," said Rice who is on a visit to Georgia.

Rice praised the accord which she said came after "many, many years of hard work as well as Libya having made some important strategic choices about its WMD (weapons of mass destruction) in abandoning them and also in abandoning terrorism.

[news24.com]