Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 30 ga Agusta 2008, shugaban Libya Muammar al-Gaddafi da Berlusconi sun rattaba hannu kan wata yarjejeniyar hadin gwiwa ta tarihi a Benghazi. A karkashin sharuddansa, Italiya za ta biya dala biliyan 5 ga Libya a matsayin diyya ga tsohuwar aikin soja. A musayar, Libya za ta dauki matakai don yakar bakin haure ba bisa ka'ida ba daga gabar tekun ta kuma kara saka hannun jari a kamfanonin Italiya. Italiya ta amince da yarjejeniyar a ranar 6 ga Fabrairun 2009, kuma Libya a ranar 2 ga Maris, yayin ziyarar Berlusconi zuwa Tripoli. A watan Yuni Gaddafi ya yi ziyararsa ta farko zuwa Rome, inda ya gana da Firayim Minista Berlusconi, Shugaban Italiya na Jamhuriyar Giorgio Napolitano da Shugaban Majalisar Dattawa Renato Schifani. Gaddafi ya kuma halarci taron G8
a L'Aquila a watan Yuli a matsayin shugaban kungiyar Tarayyar Afirka. A yayin taron, an yi kyakkyawar rungumar hannu tsakanin Shugaban Amurka Barack Obama da Muammar Gaddafi (a karo na farko shugaban Libiya ya yi maraba da shugaban Amurka mai aiki), sannan a taron cin abincin dare na taron da Shugaba Giorgio Napolitano ya gabatar Shugabannin Amurka da na Libiya sun rikitar da bikin kuma sun zauna tare da Firayim Ministan Italiya kuma mai masaukin baki na G8, Silvio Berlusconi. (Dangane da umarnin bikin Gaddafi ya kamata ya zauna a wurare uku bayan Berlusconi)