Libyan Payments Help Secure Support for Ending of International Sanctions

On September 12, 2003 the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to end sanctions against Libya, with the United States and France abstaining. The decision came after the Libyan government agreed to pay money to families affected by a 1989 terrorist attack on a French airliner and a bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1986. Libya agreed to increase its payments to French families after they settled on significantly greater sums with Scottish families over the Pan Am airliner incident over Scotland in 1988. The Libyan government still denies any connection to the terrorist attacks.