The United States lifts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Economic sanctions">economic sanctions</a> imposed on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Libya_under_Muammar_Gaddafi#Great_Socialist_People's_Libyan_Arab_Jamahiriya_(1977–2012)" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi">Libya</a> 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" id="mwARA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Weapons of mass destruction">weapons of mass destruction</a>.