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Press TV
Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ashour Bin Khayal has said his country will not allow the Israeli regime to open an embassy in the capital Tripoli.

Rejecting recent reports over establishing an Israeli embassy in Libya, Ashour Bin Khayal on Saturday described the reports as sheer lies.

Last week, Israeli-based daily Haaretz reported that the Israeli regime has been in talks with Libya's National Transitional Council in a bid to establish ties with the newly-liberated country and open an Israeli embassy in Tripoli.

Libya's Representative to the United Nations Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam also recently rejected such reports, emphasizing that his country would never normalize ties with the Tel Aviv regime.

Eight months into the revolution that put an end to Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year-long dictatorship, revolutionary fighters found Muammar Gaddafi hiding inside a concrete sewage pipe in his hometown of Sirte, situated 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, on October 20.

Gaddafi was killed by the revolutionaries, becoming the first dictator to be killed in the wave of popular uprisings and revolutions that started to sweep North Africa and the Middle East towards the end of 2010.