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| Libya, Germany fail to agree on bomb compensation |
| 2004-05-16 |
| German and Libyan officials failed to agree on compensation for victims of a Libyan-ordered nightclub bombing in 1986 in weekend talks, but hope to clinch a deal next month, German lawyers said today. Hans-Joachim Ehrig said there was still a ’’significant gap’’ over payouts to more than 160 people wounded in the blast at West Berlin’s ’’La Belle’’ disco, in which two US soldiers and a Turkish woman were killed. Without a deal, Germany and the European Union say Libya cannot join the EU’s partnership agreement with Mediterranean nations, which would help cement its international rehabilitation and pave the way for more trade and aid. German lawyers and members of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s charitable foundation held a fourth round of negotiations in Berlin on Friday and yesterday, which the Germans had hoped would prove decisive. ’’We’ve made rapid progress in these last four rounds of talks and this gives us justified hope that we can reach full agreement in a fifth round in June,’’ Ehrig said. |
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