The Five Demands

Placate le speculazioni sulla cifra a titolo di risarcimento alla vittime dell’IRA, concordata con la Libia

Jeffrey Donaldson, DUP, ha respinto le speculazioni secondo le quali sarebbe stato raggiunto un accordo con la Libia, sul risarcimento alle vittime dell’IRA.
Nel novembre scorso Donaldson aveva fatto parte di una delegazione composta da altri 2 deputati e 3 membri della House of Lords, volata in territorio africano per incontrare alcuni funzionari del regime di Muammar Gheddafi.

Il rappresentate unionista ha affermato che al momento non esiste alcun accordo e quanto trapelato (risarcimento fissato in 2 miliardi di sterline) è privo di fondamento.
“Proseguono le discussioni con il governo libico, ma le cifre menzionate sono puramente speculazioni”.
“Non è stato raggiunto alcun accordo in questa fase, e la prossima settimana speriamo di incontrare gli avvocati per capire a che punto siamo”.

Libya deal for IRA victims ‘speculation’ (U TV)
A DUP MP has rejected reports a payout deal has been agreed which would see Libya paying IRA victims billions of pounds for its role in supplying the group with arms.
The move comes after a delegation of MPs visited the North African country last November.
The cross-party group of three MPs and three members of the Lords met a number of officials from Colonel Gaddafi’s regime to discuss the ongoing bid to secure financial redress for Libya’s role in arming the republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.
DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson was among them but he has told UTV no deal has been done yet.
“Discussions are continuing with the Libyan government, but the figures mentioned in the public domain are purely speculative”, Donaldson said.
“There hasn’t been an agreement reached at this stage and we are hoping to meet lawyers next week to see were we are”, he added.
Semtex explosives supplied by Libya were one of the IRA’s most lethal weapons in its decades-long terror campaign.
Links between the IRA and Colonel Gaddafi are thought to stretch back as far as 1972, and Libya is understood to have supplied the Republican group with Czech-made Semtex in the 1980s, as well as thousands of rifles, small arms and flame throwers.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Office would not be drawn on claims that a trade deal between the UK and Libya was expected to be part of the settlement.