Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz has apologized for the arrest in 2008 of one of the sons of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. "We are apologizing for what happened to Hannibal Qaddafi and the two sides agreed to form a committee to discuss the matter," Merz told reporters in Tripoli. Libyan Prime Minister al-Baghdadi Ali al- Mahmoudi said the two countries had agreed on a "normalization" of their relationship, a decision confirmed by Merz.
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