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U.S. Official Meets With Families Of Lockerbie Victims

Libya firmly denied making any sort of concrete settlement proposal and still maintains it had nothing to do with the incident

WASHINGTON, June 8 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Regardless of the fact that the Libyan government has firmly denied making any sort of concrete settlement proposal and still maintains it had nothing to do with the December 21, 1988 bombing, a U.S. official briefed Friday families of victims killed in the 1988 crash of Pan Am Flight No. 103 on recent discussions about a settlement with Libya.

Participants said Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs William Burns stressed to about 20 family members that Washington continues to insist Libya comply with all conditions set by the United Nations for an end to sanctions, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

"It was a good meeting," participant Dan Cohen said.

The meeting came a day after Burns met British and Libyan officials in London to discuss a settlement of the case.

Tripoli has yet to meet United Nations demands that it accepts responsibility for the incident that took place in Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988, or to provide compensation to their families, AFP said.

Cohen said many families were unhappy with Libya's reported offer of 2.7 billion dollars conditioned on the lifting of both UN and U.S. sanctions on Tripoli, AFP said.

"This idea that lawyers are going to meet in Paris and wrap things up is highly unrealistic, there is much work to be done on a whole variety of areas," he said.

After Libya handed over two suspects to be judged by a Scottish court that was opened in the Netherlands, the UN sanctions were suspended but not lifted. The U.S. sanctions remain intact.

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was found guilty in January 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The second suspect, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found innocent and was acquitted.

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