Libya Announces Bombing Deal

World | September 1, 2003, Monday // 00:00

Libya says it has agreed a compensation deal with relatives of the 170 people killed in the bombing of a French UTA airliner in 1989 - but Paris will not confirm the statement. "The problem over the UTA case is over and the Lockerbie case is now behind us. We are opening a new page in our relations with the West," Colonel Muammar Qaddafi said in an address to the nation. Colonel Qaddafi did not admit Libyan guilt in the speech, which marked the anniversary of a coup which bought him to power 34 years ago. The French foreign ministry said it could not yet confirm that a deal had been reached, although it said constructive negotiations were continuing. Lawyers representing the families of bombing victims adopted a similar position.

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