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Libya agrees to compensation deal on UTA bombing

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, says he wants to open a 'new page' in relations with the West, following the agreement of a new compensation deal.

A package has been agreed with families of those killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger.

Earlier this month, Libya paid €2.5bn in compensation to the relatives of people killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

In a speech to mark the 34th anniversary of the coup which brought him to power, Colonel Gaddafi said that both cases were now over.

But lawyers for the victims of the UTA bombing say the deal has not been signed.