LONDON: Britain opposed a bid by US President Bill Clinton to expand UN sanctions on Libya under dictator Moamer Kadhafi, while seeking to extradite the Lockerbie bombers, previously secret government papers showed on Wednesday. After a US and UK investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyans in 1991. A Foreign Office official, Richard Stagg, wrote to Major’s private secretary Roderic Lyne in November 1995: “We should like to try the two accused and secure convictions. Direct impact“The Foreign Secretary (Malcom Rifkind) has decided that we should not support the US in going for a new resolution,” said Sam Sharpe, Rifkind’s private secretary. His family is awaiting the verdict of a posthumous appeal against his conviction at Scotland’s highest court of criminal appeal.

Source: Libya Today December 30, 2020 02:26 UTC