BENGHAZI: Poland on Monday urged Libya's interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil to promote reconciliation after the killing of Moamer Qadhafi and offered Warsaw's help in rebuilding the nation.
"Last time I was here there was fighting not very far from Benghazi. Today, Libya is free," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters after a meeting with Abdel Jalil.
He said the Polish people were also "revolutionaries" and "admired deomcratic people when they succeed."
"The real challenges begin now ... reconciliation, reintegration and rebuilding" the country, the minister said as he congratulated Abdel Jalil for the liberation of Libya from the iron-fisted rule of Qadhafi.
"We did it 20 years ago. We succeeded and so we are ready to share with you the things we did right and the mistakes we made," he said, referring to the end of communism in Poland.
He said Poland was ready to help Libya with training in the healthcare sector and also to treat those wounded in fighting, and added that Abdel Jalil had accepted an invitation to visit Warsaw.
Abdel Jalil said Poland had backed the Libyan revolution since its early days. "Poland was always supporting the revolution, politically and in an humanitarian way," he said.
"We look forward to strengthen the relation between the two countries," he said, adding that the two nations could work together in the areas of medicine, tourism and agriculture.
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