France and Libya moved closer to reaching a deal on boosting compensation paid to the families of victims of the 1989 bombing of the French UTA airliner in line with the pay-out made for the Lockerbie tragedy, officials said. Libya's ambassador to Britain, Mohammed al-Zouai, said his country might boost its pay-out to the families of the 170 victims on the French plane to forestall a French veto of its deal with Britain and the United States on the Lockerbie bombing. France had threatened to block a UN resolution submitted by Britain that would see UN economic and diplomatic sanctions imposed on Libya in the wake of the Lockerbie attack lifted in return for the payment of USD 2.7 B to the families of the victims. The compensation would work out at 10 million dollars for each of the 270 people killed when a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland was destroyed by a bomb in 1988.

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