Gaddafi confers with Burkina Faso president

Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi met on Tuesday with President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso who arrived in Tripoli earlier in the day.

In an arrival statement to reporters, Compaore called for lifting sanctions imposed on Libya. He said that these sanctions lack logic and have no legal basis.

Meanwhile, the secretary-general of the Libyan people's committee for foreign relations and international cooperation, Omar al-Muntasir, met on Tuesday night with that chairman of a major French companies group in France, Jerome Monde, currently visiting Libya. He is leading a delegation representing all these companies.

The two sides reviewed the prospects for economic cooperation between Libya and the French group in the context of supporting Libyan - French relations.