30 October 1998
(UN Security Council keeps sanctions on Libya re PanAm 103) (400) United Nations -- The President of the UN Security Council told reporters late October 29 that members of the Council had "reiterated their call to Libya to comply with resolution 1192 and recalled that sanctions would be suspended as soon as the Secretary-General reports that the terms of 1192, paragraph eight, have been met. "Council members," he said, "noted that the 10th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy falls on 21 December of this year and they agreed that this underlined the need to resolve this issue in line with resolution 1192 as soon as possible." Following is the UNSC statement: (begin text) Council business this morning began with Western Sahara where we made good progress on agreeing a text of a resolution extending the mandate of MINURSO. That resolution will go into blue under presidential sponsorship now and we will meet tomorrow morning to adopt that resolution. We then moved on to the Libya sanctions review and the Council has asked me to make the following statement: Council members reviewed sanctions pursuant to para. 13 of resolution 748 and in the light of the adoption of resolution 1192, in August. Council members welcomed the fact that clarifications concerning the procedures for the trial in the Netherlands under Scottish law and with Scottish judges were being provided to the Libyan authorities through the Secretary-General's office. Council members were encouraged by the relatively positive trend of those developments. Members reiterated their call to Libya to comply with resolution 1192 and recalled that sanctions would be suspended as soon as the Secretary-General reports that the terms of 1192, paragraph eight, have been met. We heard a report from the Chairman of the Sanctions Committee on compliance with the sanctions regime and on exemptions, including efforts by the Sanctions Committee to ameliorate the position on Haj flights. Council members noted that the 10th anniversary of the Lockerbie tragedy falls on 21 December of this year and they agreed that this underlined the need to resolve this issue in line with resolution 1192 as soon as possible. And so they will follow developments very closely. That's the statement on the Libya sanctions review. 29 October 1998 (end text)