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TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Moammar Gadhafi's long-isolated Libya has signed two contracts for missiles and communications equipment with French companies totaling $405 million, a government official said Thursday.
The first contract, worth $230 million, is for Milan missiles, and the second, totaling $175 million, is for advanced Tetra communications and surveillance equipment for the police, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. He did not reveal the names of the French companies.
The official said the deal is important because it is the first of its kind that Libya signed with a Western country since sanctions were imposed in the early 1990s.
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