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August 10, 2004
Libya to Pay $35 Million to Berlin Bomb Victims

REUTERS: Libya to Pay $35 Million to Berlin Bomb Victims

Libya has agreed to compensate more than 160 non-U.S. victims of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub, the Libyan ambassador to Germany told Reuters on Tuesday.

The agreement should help the oil-rich North African nation end its pariah status and improve its ties with the European Union, whose trade and aid partnership with Mediterranean countries it wants to join.

"The memorandum will be signed tonight in Berlin. The volume is $35 million," Ambassador Said Abdulaati said, adding that a formal contract would be signed in two weeks in Tripoli.

The lawyers representing the victims declined to comment on the ambassador's statement.

"I have no comment. That is not the state of my knowledge," said lawyer Stephan Maigne. A spokesman for lawyer Ulrich von Jeinsen said the parties had agreed to maintain silence.

The German government had no comment yet, a spokesman said.

Posted by Laurence Simon at August 10, 2004 11:40 AM | TrackBack
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