17 Sep 2011 20:56

Cameron: politicizing Libya oil deals would be wrong policy

VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 17 (Interfax) - Libya's new government should have no other criteria than business effectiveness in giving oil contracts to foreign companies, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a Russian television program on Saturday.

Such contracts are a chance to help bring about economic revival in the Arab country, Cameron argued in a program on the Rossiya 1 channel that was aired in Russia's Far East.

He was commenting on speculation that, in looking through bids from foreign oil companies, Libya's new leaders would choose firms representing countries that had helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi.