From Africa Recovery, Vol.14#3 (October 2000), Watch page

LOCKERBIE
OAU calls for end to sanctions on Libya

With Libya in compliance with all the UN Security Council's demands regarding the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) is pressing the UN Security Council to lift international sanctions against the country. In a letter to the Council in mid-September, the representatives of a five-member OAU committee (Cameroon, Ghana, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe) noted that it was 18 months since two Libyan suspects first appeared before a Scottish court in the Netherlands. It also was 5 months since the trial actually began. Despite the Security Council's own provision for lifting sanctions once the suspects had appeared in court and despite a report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan indicating that Libya had complied with all its commitments, the sanctions remain in place, the signers regret. The OAU, they say, "calls on the Security Council to lift the sanctions immediately and irrevocably."

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