Posted on 06/07/2002 11:55:15 AM PDT by knighthawk
LONDON - Libyan officials met with representatives of the United States and Britain on Thursday to discuss Libya's compliance with U.N. resolutions on the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, including a $2.7 billion compensation offer to the victims' families, the Foreign Office said.
Lawyers representing the families of those killed in the 1988 attack said last week that Libya had offered to compensate relatives of the 270 people killed, 189 of whom were Americans. The offer would mean $10 million for each family.
Under the proposal, Libya would make the payments piecemeal, linking them to the lifting of U.N. and U.S. sanctions.
Officials were able to hear details of the compensation offer directly from the Libyan government, but a Foreign Office spokesman declined to say what they had learned.
He called the meeting "constructive" and said he hoped they would continue.
Libya's U.N. mission had earlier denied that the Libyan government was involved in the compensation offer.
The Libyan businessman who led the team negotiating the proposed deal has said Libya's government was not involved in the agreement and had not authorized the business community to negotiate on its behalf.
Payment of compensation to the families is one of several U.N. Security Council conditions for lifting sanctions.
Libya is also required to admit responsibility for the bombing, renounce terrorism, and disclose all information it has about the downing of the jet, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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