June 13 (Reuters) – Max Goeldi, the Swiss businessman stranded in Libya for nearly two years, will leave for home on Sunday, Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said.

“Max Goeldi will leave the country today,” she told reporters in the Libyan capital. “Goeldi will return to Switzerland and this is the start of the normalisation of relations between the two countries.”

She also said Switzerland apologises for the publication of photographs of Hannibal Gaddafi, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after he we was arrested in Geneva in July 2008. (Reporting by Salah Sarrar; Writing by Christian Lowe)