While continuing to arrive from Libya dramatic news on the violent repression by the regime, it is useful to remember that Tripoli is a major trading partner 
for Italy in the military sector. In fact in this country is direct about 2% of total exports of Italy, which ranks as the eleventh country importer of Italian arms.
By the way, after a slight dip between 2005 and 2007, in 2008 the value of the Libyan military spending has started to grow again, reaching the figure of $ 1.1 billion in 2008, thus opening up interesting perspectives for the export of armi.In according to the report of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers on the outlines of politica del Governo in materia di esportazione, importazione e transito dei materiali di armamento, il valore delle esportazioni di armi italiane alla Libia è in costante crescita a partire dal 2006, anno in cui riprendono i flussi commerciali tra i due Stati. Le autorizzazioni alle esportazioni italiane in Libia per il 2009 sono state pari a circa 111,8 milioni di euro, in aumento rispetto ai 93 milioni circa del 2008 (in particolare bombe, siluri, eazzi, aeromobili e apparecchiature elettroniche).
E' utile ricordare che negli ultimi dieci anni diversi sono stati gli accordi stipulati con il regime di Gheddafi:
• La Agusta Westlands, una società del Gruppo Finmeccanica, ha venduto 10 elicotteri AW109E Power tra il 2006 e il 2009, worth about 80 million €. The company also claims to have sold nearly 20 helicopters in recent years, including the single-rotor aircraft for missions AW119K medical emergency and the AW139 medium twin engine for the activities of general security.
• Joint-venture: the Libyan Italian Advanced Technology Company (LIATEC), 50% owned by the Libyan Company for Aviation Industry, to 25% by Finmeccanica and 25% by Agusta Westlands. LIATEC offering maintenance and crew training aircraft AW119K, AW109 and AW139, including technical support, overhauls and spare diricambio.
• In January 2008, Alenia Aeronautica, another group company, has signed a agreement with Libya for the provision of an ATR-42MP Surveyor, a maritime patrol aircraft for the. In addition, the contract, worth 31 million euro, including pilot training, system operators, logistic support and spare parts. •
Itas srl, a company of La Spezia (according to the Research Department - Department of Foreign Affairs of the House, doc.140-21/05/2010) by the technical control and maintenance of Otomat missiles, purchased from the seventies by government in Tripoli. The Otomat is a long-range anti-ship missile.
• Following the agreements contained in the Treaty of Benghazi in May 2009, the Guardia di Finanza undertook the delivery of the first three patrol the Libyan navy to patrol the Mediterranean Sea, followed in February 2010 by three other boats (one of these were fired volleys of machine gun against an Italian fishing boat in 2010).
Finmeccanica has concluded
side agreements with the Libyan company:
for Italy in the military sector. In fact in this country is direct about 2% of total exports of Italy, which ranks as the eleventh country importer of Italian arms. By the way, after a slight dip between 2005 and 2007, in 2008 the value of the Libyan military spending has started to grow again, reaching the figure of $ 1.1 billion in 2008, thus opening up interesting perspectives for the export of armi.In according to the report of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers on the outlines of politica del Governo in materia di esportazione, importazione e transito dei materiali di armamento, il valore delle esportazioni di armi italiane alla Libia è in costante crescita a partire dal 2006, anno in cui riprendono i flussi commerciali tra i due Stati. Le autorizzazioni alle esportazioni italiane in Libia per il 2009 sono state pari a circa 111,8 milioni di euro, in aumento rispetto ai 93 milioni circa del 2008 (in particolare bombe, siluri, eazzi, aeromobili e apparecchiature elettroniche).
E' utile ricordare che negli ultimi dieci anni diversi sono stati gli accordi stipulati con il regime di Gheddafi:
• La Agusta Westlands, una società del Gruppo Finmeccanica, ha venduto 10 elicotteri AW109E Power tra il 2006 e il 2009, worth about 80 million €. The company also claims to have sold nearly 20 helicopters in recent years, including the single-rotor aircraft for missions AW119K medical emergency and the AW139 medium twin engine for the activities of general security.
• Joint-venture: the Libyan Italian Advanced Technology Company (LIATEC), 50% owned by the Libyan Company for Aviation Industry, to 25% by Finmeccanica and 25% by Agusta Westlands. LIATEC offering maintenance and crew training aircraft AW119K, AW109 and AW139, including technical support, overhauls and spare diricambio.
• In January 2008, Alenia Aeronautica, another group company, has signed a agreement with Libya for the provision of an ATR-42MP Surveyor, a maritime patrol aircraft for the. In addition, the contract, worth 31 million euro, including pilot training, system operators, logistic support and spare parts. •
Itas srl, a company of La Spezia (according to the Research Department - Department of Foreign Affairs of the House, doc.140-21/05/2010) by the technical control and maintenance of Otomat missiles, purchased from the seventies by government in Tripoli. The Otomat is a long-range anti-ship missile.
• Following the agreements contained in the Treaty of Benghazi in May 2009, the Guardia di Finanza undertook the delivery of the first three patrol the Libyan navy to patrol the Mediterranean Sea, followed in February 2010 by three other boats (one of these were fired volleys of machine gun against an Italian fishing boat in 2010).
Finmeccanica has concluded
side agreements with the Libyan company: • In 2009, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the promotion of activities of strategic cooperation with the LIA (Libyan Investment Authority) and the LAP (the Libya Africa Investment Portfolio).
• SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica Company, signed in October 2009 in a deal worth 300 million euro for the construction of a large system of protection and border security.
Only now, before the popular uprising that is spreading in the North African countries, it turns out that these regimes are illiberal, while Western governments supported them for a long time, providing arms in exchange for raw materials and appropriately "distracting" Key respect for human rights and basic civil liberties trampled in these countries, as in Libya.
• SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica Company, signed in October 2009 in a deal worth 300 million euro for the construction of a large system of protection and border security.
Only now, before the popular uprising that is spreading in the North African countries, it turns out that these regimes are illiberal, while Western governments supported them for a long time, providing arms in exchange for raw materials and appropriately "distracting" Key respect for human rights and basic civil liberties trampled in these countries, as in Libya.
Maurizio Simoncelli
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