Question: Along with the country where most of the US's oil comes from, one major power recognized the government of the face most closely associated with Libya's new government at an early date. When was the first passport issued in this country?

In May 2011, the country became a net exporter of refined petroleum products. As of 2014, the United States was the world's third - largest producer of crude oil, after Saudi Arabia and Russia. In total energy consumption, the U.S. was between 86% and 91% self - sufficient in 2016. and second largest exporter of refined products, after Russia. <SEP> After the 1969 coup, representatives of the Four Powers – France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union – were called to meet RCC representatives. Hoping to ingratiate themselves with Gaddafi, in 1970 the U.S. informed him of at least one planned counter-coup. Such attempts to form a working relationship with the RCC failed; Gaddafi was determined to reassert national sovereignty and expunge what he described as foreign colonial and imperialist influences. His administration insisted that the U.S. and U.K. remove their military bases from Libya, with Gaddafi proclaiming that "the armed forces which rose to express the people's revolution [will not] tolerate living in their shacks while the bases of imperialism exist in Libyan territory." The British left in March and the Americans in June 1970. The U.K. and U.S. quickly extended diplomatic recognition, hoping to secure the position of their military bases in Libya and fearing further instability. <SEP> Although theoretically a collegial body operating through consensus building, Gaddafi dominated the RCC, although some of the others attempted to constrain what they saw as his excesses. Gaddafi remained the government's public face, with the identities of the other RCC members only being publicly revealed on 10 January 1970. All young men from (typically rural) working and middle-class backgrounds, none had university degrees; in this way they were distinct from the wealthy, highly educated conservatives who previously governed the country. <SEP> Between 1540 and 1685, the Privy Council issued passports, although they were still signed by the monarch until the reign of Charles II when the Secretary of State could sign them instead. Safe conduct documents, usually notes signed by the monarch, were issued to foreigners as well as English subjects in medieval times. They were first mentioned in an Act of Parliament, the Safe Conducts Act in 1414. The Secretary of State signed all passports in place of the monarch from 1794 onwards, at which time formal records started to be kept. <SEP> idris' government was increasingly unpopular by the latter 1960s; it had exacerbated libya's traditional regional and tribal divisions by centralising the country's federal system in order to take advantage of the country's oil wealth, while corruption and entrenched systems of patronage were widespread throughout the oil industry. arab nationalism was increasingly popular, and protests flared up following egypt's 1967 defeat in the six-day war with israel; allied to the western powers, idris' administration was seen as pro-israeli. anti-western riots broke out in tripoli and benghazi, while libyan workers shut down oil terminals in solidarity with egypt. by 1969, the u.s. central intelligence agency was expecting segments of libya's armed forces to launch a coup. although claims have been made that they knew of gaddafi's free officers movement, they have since claimed ignorance, stating that they were monitoring abdul aziz shalhi's black boots revolutionary group. <SEP> having removed the monarchical government, gaddafi proclaimed the foundation of the libyan arab republic. addressing the populace by radio, he proclaimed an end to the "reactionary and corrupt" regime, "the stench of which has sickened and horrified us all." due to the coup's bloodless nature, it was initially labelled the "white revolution", although was later renamed the "one september revolution" after the date on which it occurred. gaddafi insisted that the free officers' coup represented a revolution, marking the start of widespread change in the socio-economic and political nature of libya. he proclaimed that the revolution meant "freedom, socialism, and unity", and over the coming years implemented measures to achieve this.