VOL. XL

No. 39

29-September-1997

LIBYA

Arab League, OAU And Non-Aligned Group Seek Easing Of Sanctions On Libya

The Arab League, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Movement ofNon-Aligned Countries have in the past week called for the sanctions against Libya to beeased. Russia, too, has urged that some step be taken to resolve the dispute betweenTripoli and the US and UK over the 1988 bombing of a Pan American airliner over Lockerbie,Scotland.

On 21 September, following a two-day...