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Libya 'has potential for more oil'

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In the space of 10 years, Libya has gone from being an international outcast - as far as the UK was concerned - into being a trading partner. Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan reports on the shifts in UK-Libya relations.

Dr Manouchehr Takin, oil analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies, discusses the effect of the release of the Libyan man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing on relations.

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