abstract
| - The Libyan disarmament issue was peacefully resolved on December 2003 when Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi retroactively agreed to rollback his country's weapons of mass destruction program and the decades-old approach of active nuclear weapons program. In 1968, Libya became signatory of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), ratified the treaty in 1975, and concluded a safeguards agreement in 1980. Despite its commitment to NPT, there are reports indicated that Muammar Gaddafi of Libya made unsuccessful attempts for either attempting to build or entered in an agreement to purchase a nuclear weapon from nuclear-armed nations. In 1970s–80s, Gaddafi made numerous attempts to accelerated and pushed forward his ambitions for an active nuclear weapons program, using the nuclear black market sources. However, after the end of Cold war in 1991, Gaddafi sought to resolve its nuclear crises with the United States aiming to uplift the sanctions against Libya, finally agreeing to authorize to rollback Libya's weapons of mass destruction program on December 2003. As of 2013, over 800 tons of chemical weapons ingredients remain to be destroyed; full destruction is scheduled to be completed by 2016.
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