JEDDAH, 5 September — Saudi Arabian Airlines will resume regular flights to Libya next month following a break of 10 years due to Lockerbie-linked sanctions, according to Dr. Khaled Bakr, the carrier’s director general.
Preparations were under way to resume normal operations to Libya at the end of October, Bakr told Arab News, just a day after Riyadh and Tripoli signed an agreement to boost bilateral economic ties.
The agreement, signed by Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and Libyan Minister for African Unity Dr. Ali Abdussalam Turaiki in Jeddah Tuesday, aims to boost bilateral cooperation in the economic, trade, investment, technical, sport, scientific and industrial fields, including oil and petrochemicals, Saudi Press Agency reported.
Sanctions in force since 1992 were suspended in 2000 after Tripoli handed over two Libyan suspects in the December 1988 mid-air bombing of a US airliner over the Scottish village of Lockerbie.
that killed 270 people.
