 In exchange, Libya would take measures to combat illegal immigration coming from its shores and boost investment in Italian companies.Removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism in 2006, Gaddafi nevertheless continued his anti-Western rhetoric, and at the Second Africa-South America Summit, held in Venezuela in September 2009, he called for a military alliance across Africa and Latin America to rival NATO.That month he also addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City for the first time, using it to condemn "Western aggression".