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The U.S. planes returned fire and shot down the attacking Libyan aircraft. On December 11, 1981, the U.S. State Department invalidated U.S. passports for travel to Libya and, for purposes of safety, advised all U.S. citizens in Libya to leave. In March 1982, the U.S. Government prohibited imports of Libyan crude oil into the United States and ...
The first official envoy to Libya was Henry Serrano Villard, who presented his credentials on March 6, 1952. [2] [3] On December 2, 1979, a mob attacked and burned the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. On December 29, the U.S. Department of State designated Libya as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Chargé d’Affaires was recalled on February 8, 1980 ...
On May 30, 2013, it was reported that the Republican National Committee filed a FOIA for "any and all emails or other documents containing the terms 'Libya' and/or 'Benghazi' dated between September 11, 2012 and November 7, 2012 directed from or to U.S. Department of State employees originating from, or addressed to, persons whose email ...
Deborah Kay Jones (born 1956) is an American diplomat and the former United States ambassador to Libya. [2] [3] Prior to her appointment in Libya, she was the United States ambassador to Kuwait from 2008 to 2011. [4]
Ambassador Richard Norland previously served as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford.Prior to that he served as U.S. Ambassador to Georgia (2012–2015), Deputy Commandant/International Affairs Advisor at the National War College (2010–2012), U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan (2007–2010), and Deputy Chief of Mission at the American ...
In August 2011, the State Department approved plans to allow the National Transitional Council to re-open the Libyan embassy in Washington. [6] The embassy officially re-opened on 12 August with Ali Aujali accredited as the head of the mission.
The Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), also known as the Bureau of Near East Asian Affairs, [3] is an agency of the Department of State within the United States government that deals with U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic relations with the nations of the Near East.
Charles David Welch (born 1953) is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State from 2005 through 2008. On August 14, 2008, in Tripoli , Welch signed the U.S.- Libya Comprehensive Claims Settlement Agreement paving the way for the restoration of full diplomatic ...