Butera & Andrews Welcomes the easing of US Sanctions Against Libya.

WASHINGTON Washington, town, England
Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- President George George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). W. Bush today lifted sanctions Sanctions is the plural of sanction. Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym.

Sanctions involving countries:

against Libya Libya (lĭb`ēə), officially Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahirya [state of the masses], republic (2005 est. pop. 5,766,000), 679,358 sq mi (1,759,540 sq km), N Africa. . He has agreed to lift both sanctions on air travel and a freeze on $1 billion in assets that belong to Libya or in which Libya has an interest.

The news was welcomed by John McInespie of Butera & Andrews who has recently returned from Libya. Butera & Andrews is the Washington DC law firm which was the first U.S. firm to form an alliance with a Libyan law firm working on deals.

"This is great news. The opportunities in Libya are certainly there but what is needed is expertise of the highest levels. The Libyans are looking to make the best deals."

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