The World - News from June 4, 1989

Egyptian sources said an official delegation will fly to Tripoli today for talks aimed at rapprochement between Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, and Libya, its maverick neighbor, after years of hostility. The two North African nations reopened their border less than a week after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi at the summit in Casablanca, Morocco, that readmitted Cairo to the Arab League. Libyans are arriving in Egypt to visit families for the first time in a decade, Egyptian airspace is to be reopened to Libya and normal flights between the two countries could resume as early as Wednesday, the sources said. Kadafi is also said to have agreed to compensate thousands of Egyptian workers expelled when Egypt signed its peace treaty with Israel in 1979.