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UN sanctions won't harm Lankan ties with Libya
COLOMBO, Apr 19: The recent UN resolution on sanctions against Libya will not affect Srl Lankan Libyan relations, Sunday Times reported today, says Xinhua.
The UN resolution imposed after Libya refused to extradite two men allegedly responsible for the Lockerbe aircraft disaster banned on all direct air links to and from Libya arms deals and called for the downgrading of Libyan embassies abroad.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that trade with Libya will not be affected by this action since the resolution did not Impose any sanctions against non-milltary goods. The is land country buys oil from Libya and sells tea.
He said that there were no direct air links or arms deals between the two countries, and there was no question of downgrading the Libyan embassy in Colombo as it has a very small diplomatic staff.
A Libyan embassy spokesman In Colombo also said bilateral trade will not be affected by the UN sanctions and Sri Lankans in Libya are free to return or continue to work there.
However presidential advisory Bradman Weerakoon said the Sri Lankan mission to Cairo has been Instructed to give necessary assistance to Sri Lankans working in the Middle East country who wished to return home.
A spokesman for the Egyptian embassy In Colombo said that Sri Lankans who wish to return will have to come to Cairo by road and then fly to Colombo.
The Sri Lankan government has so far not requested the Egyptian authorities to help tn this matter but they would be willing to do so If requested, he said.
AFP reports: A Syrian drug dealer with ties to a Palestinian terrorist leader may have planted the bomb which caused the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988, a published report said here Saturday.
In its current Issue, Time magazine said it had obtained an FBI field report from Germany which said Monzer Al Khassar, a Syrian drug dcaler.may have placed a piece of tuggege containing a bomb abroad the Boeing 747 In Frankfurt.
The plane exploded tn mid air over Lockerb(e, Scotland, killing 270 people.
At the time Al Khassar was cooperating with the US drug enforcement administration in a sting operation but also was working with Ahmed Jibrial, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Time said.
The new theory comes Just three days after the United Nations imposed an air and arms embargo against Libya which has refused to extradite two nationals accused by Washington and Britain of being responsible for the bombing.
AP from London adds: A former Libyan government official hiding under US government protection is ready to testify against two Libyans accused in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
The Independent quoted Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counterterrorist operations, as saying the unidentified Libyan knew the who, where and when' of the 1988 bombiqg over Lockerbie. Scotland, tn which 270 people died.
Cannistraro was also quoted as saying that a Maltese shopkeeper who sold clothes to the bomber was ready to supply evidence and would implicate the two Libyans.
The former CIA official, who now runs his own security consulting firm, told the paper he believed the pair coordinated their efforts with Palestinian terrorists in Syria In an operation possibly financed by Iran.
The UN Security Council this week ordered International air travel and arms sales to Libya cut off to pressure the country into turning over two men for trial in Britain or the United States.
Libya, which has no extradition treaty with either nation, has offered to turn over the two men — Abdel Basset All al-Megrahi. 39. and I amen Khalifa Fhlmah, 35 — for trial In a neutral country.
The newspaper report could not be Im mediately confirmed. The Foreign Office said it had no information on the report and referred queries to the US government.
In February, Cannistraro told The Washington Post that a Libyan source had re ported that the two suspects had 'disappeared and will not be found. The two men, described in the West as Libyan intelligence operative, subsequently appeared In public in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.