New French threat postpones lifting sanctions; Libya announces negotiations with Germany

A French diplomat announced yesterday the determination of Paris to veto the British draft resolution to lift sanctions from Libya if it is put to a vote at the UN security council today. A matter which pushed Britain to announce postponing the vote on the draft resolution until next week.

However, negotiations between families of victims of the French planes and al-Qathafi Foundation For Charity stumbled after Tripoli had prevented the representatives of the families from traveling to Libya last Tuesday for undisclosed reasons in order to complete negotiations with the organization which announced yesterday that it has been making negotiation to compensate families of the victims of "La Belle" club in Berlin in 1986.

A source close to the French- Libyan negotiations said that families of victims of "Uta" plane demand 120 million dollars as compensations. A French diplomat said yesterday that "if a vote is called on Friday ( today), France will vote negatively."

Meantime, the assistant for the Syrian representative at the UN whose country assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council for August Faisal Miqdad said "if the British ask for a vote, the council will be ready" for that.

Libya had agreed to pay compensations for families of the victims of Lockerbie incident of 10 million dollars for every family. A matter which pushed France to protest against the settlement because families of the 270 victims of Uta incident got only 11 million in total divided among them.

Al-Qathafi Charity Foundation, chaired by Libyan leader's son, said yesterday that it discussed with families of the victims of the explosion which targeted La Belle club in Berlin in 1986 paying compensations to non- Americans who were among the victims.