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Article: Cook issues challenge to Col Gaddafi
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- August 27, 1998
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FOREIGN Secretary Robin Cook today issued a new challenge to
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi to hand over the two prime suspects in
the Lockerbie bombing.
Last night's statement from the Libyan foreign ministry that it
would accept the "new position" of the UK and the US, while at the
same time calling for the lifting of UN sanctions, was "welcome as
far as it goes", said Mr Cook.
It could, in fact, be seen as the most positive response from
Tripoli in the seven years since the warrants for the two Libyan
suspects were issued.
But Livingston MP Mr Cook insisted Colonel Gaddafi's government
had to go further and meet the principal British and American
requirement - the surrender of the suspects ...