VOL. XLIII

No. 36

4-September-2000

LIBYA

UN Releases Annan Letter Concerning Lockerbie Trial As Libya Seeks IOC Joint Ventures In Downstream Industries

On 25 August, the United Nations released the text of a 1999 letter that Secretary-General Kofi Annan sent to Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi promising that the suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing would "not be used to undermine the Libyan regime." The key paragraph of the letter says that "there is no intention to interview them, or...