Libya–Serbia relations

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Libya and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between Angola and SFR Yugoslavia in 1955, following Lybia's independence. Libya has an embassy in Belgrade [1] and Serbia has an embassy in Tripoli. [2]

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History

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President of Serbia Boris Tadić with Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi built a strong diplomatic relationship with Yugoslavia and then maintained it with Serbia. [3]

One of the more important connections was the arms trade, first between the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Libya, and then continuing with Serbia after the breakup of Yugoslavia. [4] Several aircraft of the Libyan Jamahiriyan Air Force which were captured or used to defend Gaddafi-loyalists were made by Yugoslav aircraft-manufacturer SOKO in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. [5] [6] Muammar Gaddafi maintained strong diplomatic with Serbia after Yugoslavia broke up in 1991-1995. [7] Public opinion in Serbia has been cited to be supportive of the Muammar Gaddafi regime. [8] [9] [10]

Libyan civil war

On August 25, 2011, Serbia officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the ruling government in Libya. [11] However, the relations with the transitional government were strained from the very beginning of the Libyan Civil War when five Serbs were captured by Anti-Gaddafi rebels under the suspicion that they fought as mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi. [12] [13] [14] Libya al Youm then reported that more mercenaries had been flown in from Banja Luka. [15] The Serbian Minister of Defence, Dragan Šutanovac, denied reports that Serbian warplanes had bombed anti-Qaddafi protestors. [16]

Post-civil war

On 7 November 2015 two Serbian embassy workers in Libya were kidnapped by an unknown group, as reported by theMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia. [17]

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