[1] In the summer of 1973, Major Abdessalam Jalloud, the second statesman of Libya, made a stopover in Romania, while returning from Moscow.

At the time of the meeting, Romania was the only communist bloc country that maintained diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

Failing to wring any concession from Ceaușescu, Abdessalam Jalloud omitted to invite him to visit Libya.

[2] In Red Horizons, Mihai Pacepa narrated an episode that represents the beginning of the Ceaușescu-Gaddafi friendship: on the second day of the 1974 visit, Ceaușescu opened a large silver box in front of Gaddafi.

Ceausescu allegedly told Gaddafi: "This is the original manuscript of the first Romanian translation of the Koran, made hundreds of years ago.