Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the decision of the Security Council to lift sanctions against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

The Secretary-General hopes that this important step, along with the settlement arrangements agreed following many years of intensive negotiations, will help bring some comfort to the families of the victims of the tragic events over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and Niger in 1989 as the international community strives to bring this tragic chapter to a close.