Paying for the past.
Italy is to provide billions of dollars to Libya as part of a deal to resolve colonial-era disputes, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has announced.
At least $5bn will go to help Libyan infrastructure projects over the next 25 years.
Mr Berlusconi is in the port of Benghazi to meet Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and seal a bilateral friendship and cooperation accord.
Libya was occupied by Italy in 1911 before becoming a colony in the 1930s.
It became independent in 1951.
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