France given more time to reach Libya compensation deal
UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.
The French government is threatening to block a draft UN resolution that would lift the sanctions, saying it wants a better financial deal for the bombing of the French jet after families of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, got a £1.6bn (€2.3bn) settlement.
