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MOSCOW — Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy said Saturday that he hopes to increase energy ties with Moscow during his first visit to post-Soviet Russia, which hopes to persuade him to back its plans for an OPEC-like natural-gas cartel.
“We consider oil and gas cooperation especially important now,” Khadafy said in the Kremlin before talks with President Dmitry Medvedev. “We have common approaches to gas and oil policies.”
He did not elaborate.
Russia has been eager to persuade Libya to back its plans for a gas cartel that would also involve Algeria, Iran, Qatar and the countries of Central Asia and could strengthen Moscow’s energy leverage over Europe.
