Italian group calls for busting the sanctions on Libya

An Italian parliamentary source said on Thursday that a 43-member group representing various parties in the Italian Senate on Wednesday signed a memorandum calling on the government to resume relations with Libya and end the UN embargo imposed on it.

The memorandum also demanded full restoration of Libyan relations with the international community, especially with the European Union.

The undersigned parties noted the recent decision by the International Court of Justice that it has jurisdiction to hear the Libyan complaint concerning two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, saying that this new development should lead to a revision of the embargo imposed on Libya.

Among those who signed the memorandum were the chairman of the senate bloc of the Democratic Leftist Party and the chairman of the New Communist Party.