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IV 109th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 838 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 24, 2006 Mr. Ferguson (for himself and Mr. Andrews) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of State should not accept the credentials of any representative of the Government of Libya until the Government of Libya has fully met its financial commitments to the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and that the President should urge the Government of Libya to make a good faith effort to resolve other outstanding cases of United States victims of terrorism sponsored or supported by Libya.

Whereas the Government of Libya has not to date made a good faith effort to resolve the claims of members of the United States Armed Forces and other United States citizens who were injured in the April 6, 1986, bombing of the LaBelle Discothéque in Berlin, Germany, and the claims of family members of the service men and women killed in that bombing or to resolve other outstanding cases of United States victims of terror sponsored or supported by Libya; Whereas, on December 21, 1988, terrorists from Libya bombed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people, including 189 Americans; Whereas, on May 29, 2002, the Government of Libya offered $2,700,000,000 to settle claims by the families of the 270 people killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103, representing $10,000,000 for each victim of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing; Whereas, on August 15, 2003, Libya's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ahmed Own, submitted a letter to the United Nations Security Council formally accepting responsibility for the action of its officials in relation to the Lockerbie bombing; Whereas, on May 15, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced her intention to remove Libya from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to establish diplomatic relations with the Government of Libya; and Whereas the families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 have not yet received the final $2,000,000 payment promised by the Government of Libya: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that— (1)it remains an important priority for further improvement in the relations between the United States and Libya that the Government of Libya make a good faith effort to resolve all outstanding claims of United States victims of terrorism sponsored or supported by Libya; (2)the Secretary of State should not accept the credentials of any representative of the Government of Libya until the Government of Libya has fully met all of its financial commitments to each of the personal representatives of United States victims of Pan Am Flight 103 who accepted the settlement with the Government of Libya; and (3)the President should urge the Government of Libya to make an good faith effort to resolve— (A)the claims of members of the United States Armed Forces and other United States citizens who were injured in the LaBelle Discothéque bombing and the claims of family members of the service men and women killed in that bombing; and (B)all other outstanding cases of United States victims of terror sponsored or supported by Libya.