Sarkozy travelled to Libya seeking to deepen relations with the North African country after helping to resolve a diplomatic standoff that hurt the oil exporter's ties with the West.
"The objective is to cooperate so as to work on the installation in Libya of a nuclear reactor to supply drinking water from desalinated sea water," Claude Gueant, the secretary general at the French presidential palace, told reporters.
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