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To: Tomas who wrote (2007)2/8/2001 4:36:20 PM
From: Tomas   of 2742
 
Mandela in bid to have all sanctions against Libya lifted

Mandela accuses West of reneging
Southern Cross Magazine, February 7

CAPE TOWN - Former president Nelson Mandela has accused Western governments of reneging on an agreement he helped negotiate to resolve an international stand-off over the Lockerbie airliner bombing.

Talking after last week's conviction of a Libyan spy for the 1988 incident, he said he intended to speak to United States president George W Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair in a bid to have all sanctions against Libya lifted.

The sanctions were imposed by the United Nations after Libya initially refused to hand over two suspected bombers. The measures were suspended - but not scrapped - after Mandela helped broker a deal under which the men would be tried on "neutral" territory, in the Netherlands.

Mandela said: "We had got certain guarantees, one of the most important (being) that if Libya delivered the suspects, the sanctions would be lifted," he said. "We expected... that the West would honour its undertaking. Unfortunately, that was not done."
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