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Libya to pay 3b lockerbie Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20030430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/libya_lockerbie http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20030430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/libya_lockerbie Yahoo! News Wed, Apr 30, 2003 Middle East - AP Libya Willing to Pay $3B on Lockerbie Tue Apr 29,11:03 PM ET TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya is willing to pay close to $3 billion to the families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 after accepting "civil responsibility" for the 1988 explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, the foreign minister said Tuesday. The payout was agreed to during negotiations last month between lawyers representing the families and Libya, and is conditional on the lifting of sanctions, Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam told The Associated Press. The family of each of the 270 victims will receive $10 million in three installments, he said. After a first payment of $4 million, U.N. sanctions on Libya would be lifted, and after a second $4 million payment, U.S. sanctions would go, he said. After the final installment, Washington would have to remove Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism, Shalqam said in a telephone interview. In London, the British foreign office said it had received no confirmation from Libya about a final agreement on paying the Lockerbie victims. There was no immediate comment from Washington. But the figures match those lawyers for the families said Libya had agreed to pay in March, after the last meeting with British, U.S. and Libyan officials. Relatives of victims said then they were told by a State Department official that an agreement was near on Libyan acknowledgment of responsibility. The State Department has said only that the March 11 meeting was useful and that progress was made. Under U.N. resolutions, Libya must acknowledge responsibility for the Dec. 21, 1988, explosion, pay fair compensation, renounce terrorism and disclose all it knows of the explosion. It was not clear whether Shalqam's announcement that Libya will "bear the civil responsibility for the actions of its employees" would suffice for acknowledging responsibility. Still, Shalqam was optimistic, telling the AP that Libyan authorities had already started to collect donations "from businessmen and companies in and outside Libya" to pay the compensation. "Libya will work hard to draw an end to that issue during the coming period," he said. A U.N. Security Council resolution passed in 1992 banned arms sales and air links to Libya to force it to hand over the two Libyans indicted in the Lockerbie bombing (news - web sites). After the men were handed over in 1999, the sanctions were suspended, but not lifted. In 2001, a Scottish court convicted a Libyan intelligence agent, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, of the bombing and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Libya surrendered al-Megrahi for trial after lengthy negotiations. A second Libyan was acquitted.

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