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12/09/2003
Call for 'parity' as UN lift Libyan sanctions
The United Nations (UN) decision to lift sanctions against Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan Government has prompted a call for parity for NI's victims of terrorism.
The removal of sanctions against Libya, following a UN vote on Friday, will surely anger DUP member, Ian Paisley Jnr who earlier called on the UK to press the UN to maintain sanctions against Libya because of its history of state sponsored terrorism.
The DUP member said the UK ambassador to the UN should block the lifting of sanctions because of its alleged connections with the IRA in the 1980's.
"Northern Ireland’s victims of IRA terrorism, who received assistance from Libya, have received virtually nothing. The UK has a duty to ensure that there is parity of compensation on the world stage. The British Government must now use this opportunity to hold out for adequate compensation for British soldiers murdered by IRA weapons supplied by Libya," Mr Paisley said.
"The British Government has failed to take up the fight at the UN and ought to be thoroughly ashamed of itself."
The special UN meeting meeting on whether sanctions should be lifted came after Libya agreed to compensate French relatives of people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger.
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The removal of sanctions against Libya, following a UN vote on Friday, will surely anger DUP member, Ian Paisley Jnr who earlier called on the UK to press the UN to maintain sanctions against Libya because of its history of state sponsored terrorism.
The DUP member said the UK ambassador to the UN should block the lifting of sanctions because of its alleged connections with the IRA in the 1980's.
"Northern Ireland’s victims of IRA terrorism, who received assistance from Libya, have received virtually nothing. The UK has a duty to ensure that there is parity of compensation on the world stage. The British Government must now use this opportunity to hold out for adequate compensation for British soldiers murdered by IRA weapons supplied by Libya," Mr Paisley said.
"The British Government has failed to take up the fight at the UN and ought to be thoroughly ashamed of itself."
The special UN meeting meeting on whether sanctions should be lifted came after Libya agreed to compensate French relatives of people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger.
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