UN Lockerbie vote expected on Tuesday

The UN Security Council will vote on Tuesday on a British proposal to lift sanctions against Libya, though France and Tripoli are still deadlocked on how much to pay the families of 170 people killed in an 1989 airliner bombing, diplomats said.

The diplomats said Britain’s UN Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry told a closed Security Council meeting that the vote would take place on Tuesday. Mr Jones Parry, president of the Security Council for September, yesterday told reporters he expected a vote sometime next week.