US administration cool to Libyan Lockerbie offer

Libya’s preliminary €2.9bn offer to families of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is not the only step needed for a lifting of sanctions against the country, the US administration has said.

Lawyers for the families, who announced the offered compensation package, said Libya conditioned its payment on revocation by the UN and the US of all punitive sanctions.