Gaddafi the generous

WASHINGTON - The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, had covered with gifts the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her historic visit to Tripoli in September last year, according to a State Department report released Thursday.

•     Colonel Qaddafi, who did not hide his admiration for the woman he called “Leezza” or “my little black African woman”, has offered a particular diamond ring and a pendant decorated with his portrait, according to the report on gifts received by the official for the U.S. administration in 2008, published in the Federal Register, the American official journal.
  
      First head of U.S. diplomacy to visit Libya since 55 years, Ms. Rice has also been given a musical instrument from the hands of the Libyan leader at their meeting on 5 September, the report, which assesses all those present at 212,225 dollars.
  
      The Federal Register does not specify what musical instrument it is, but the official Libyan Jana had mentioned a lute among the gifts presented by Colonel Gaddafi to Rice.
  
      The spokesman for Ms Rice, Sean McCormack, had also received a gift from Mr Gaddafi: A Swiss watch decorated with a portrait of the Libyan leader.
  
      All these gifts fall into the public domain, U.S. law prohibit any representative of the Government to accept any gift from a foreign government.
  
      
  Ennaharonline/ M. O.