Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09TRIPOLI358
2009-04-29 16:25:00
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
Embassy Tripoli
Cable title:
LIBYA-UK PRISONER TRANSFER AGREEMENT IN FORCE
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TRIPOLI 000358
NOFORN
SIPDIS
LONDON FOR TSOU, PARIS FOR WALLER
E.O. 12958: DECL: 4/29/2019
TAGS: PREL PTER KTIA LY UK
SUBJECT: LIBYA-UK PRISONER TRANSFER AGREEMENT IN FORCE
REF: A. TRIPOLI 65
B. LONDON 569 C. LONDON 209 CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d)
C O N F I D E N T I A L TRIPOLI 000358
NOFORN
SIPDIS
LONDON FOR TSOU, PARIS FOR WALLER
E.O. 12958: DECL: 4/29/2019
TAGS: PREL PTER KTIA LY UK
SUBJECT: LIBYA-UK PRISONER TRANSFER AGREEMENT IN FORCE
REF: A. TRIPOLI 65
B. LONDON 569 C. LONDON 209 CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d)
1.(C//NF) The UK Embassy confirmed that the instruments of ratification for the UK-Libya Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) were signed on April 29 by UK Ambassador Sir Vincent Fein and Mohammed Saghrir, head of the Legal Department at the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (MFA-equivalent),putting the PTA into force. British Embassy contacts anticipate that the GOL will not submit a forma request to transfer convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdelbasset al-Megrahi to Libyan under the PTA until next week at the earliest. CRETZ
NOFORN
SIPDIS
LONDON FOR TSOU, PARIS FOR WALLER
E.O. 12958: DECL: 4/29/2019
TAGS: PREL PTER KTIA LY UK
SUBJECT: LIBYA-UK PRISONER TRANSFER AGREEMENT IN FORCE
REF: A. TRIPOLI 65
B. LONDON 569 C. LONDON 209 CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d)
1.(C//NF) The UK Embassy confirmed that the instruments of ratification for the UK-Libya Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) were signed on April 29 by UK Ambassador Sir Vincent Fein and Mohammed Saghrir, head of the Legal Department at the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (MFA-equivalent),putting the PTA into force. British Embassy contacts anticipate that the GOL will not submit a forma request to transfer convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdelbasset al-Megrahi to Libyan under the PTA until next week at the earliest. CRETZ