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Monday, February 12, 2001, updated at 07:51(GMT+8)
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Sanctions Against Libya Should Be Off Immediately: Iran

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday that sanctions against Libya should be lifted immediately, following a recent verdict on two Libyan bombing suspects.

Asefi said that the United Nations sanctions have caused adverse impacts on the conditions of people in Libya and lifting the sanctions would help improve the economic situation of the country.

He called for an end to such measures as sanctions in international relations, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

A special Scottish court established in the Netherlands last month ruled Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi guilty of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, including 189 Americans, over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

The court acquitted Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima.

China, Russia, the Arab League and Italy have called for the U. N. sanctions against Libya to be lifted.

Sanctions, imposed on Libya in 1992, have been suspended since Libya handed over the two suspects in April 1999, and to impose them again would need another vote in the U.N. Security Council, which would probably fail.







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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said on Sunday that sanctions against Libya should be lifted immediately, following a recent verdict on two Libyan bombing suspects.

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