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The decision of the UN General Assembly to make Libya into a single independent state by 1 January 1952 posed ‘a difficult problem’ for the British government, in that it had to secure its strategic requirements in Cyrenaica without incurring too many political and financial liabilities in Tripolitania, where the US government sought to establish extensive military facilities.
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Kelly, S. (2000). Implementing the UN Resolutions, 1949–52. In: Cold War in the Desert. Cold War History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985328_7
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