The United States has indicated that it wants the Libyan government to reject a claim by the country's Prime Minister that compensation for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing had been paid to buy peace with the West.
In a BBC interview yesterday the Prime Minister, Shokri Ghanem, said the payments, amounting to $2.7 billion, did not amount to an admission of guilt.
The US has demanded that the government in Tripoli withdraw the remarks and has delayed lifting travel restrictions to Libya.
