Security Council Lifts UN Sanctions On Libya

Earlier Friday, the Libyan official news agency reported that the compensation agreement between Libya and the French families of victims of the UTA DC-10 airliner shot down over Niger in 1989 will mean France drops all judicial claims against Libyans.

"The agreement signed between the families of the UTA plane and the Kadhafi Foundation entails the withdrawal of all formal complaints against Libya and Libyan citizens and the end of all civil and judicial processes linked to this affair in the French and international courts," JANA reported.

The agreement was signed in Tripoli between the families of the victims and the Gaddafi Foundation, headed by Seif el-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Six Libyans, including one of the Libyan leader’s brothers-in-law charged in connection with the bombing of the aircraft which left 170 people dead, were sentenced to life in their absence in a French court in 1999.