The website of the US Department of State contains a transcript of a question and answer session on US-Libya relations held yesterday by Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, C David Welch. It can be read here.
One of the questions Mr Welch was asked was whether non-US Lockerbie relatives would receive payments out of the fund. Here is what he said:
'In the case of the court cases in the United States, the Administration is only authorized, constitutionally and under our law, to address cases of Americans or American nationals. However, the Pan Am settlement is part of this in the sense that it’s an existing settlement which included, you’re correct, non-Americans, for example, people in Scotland on the ground. And they would be embraced by the settlement amounts contemplated on the, if you will, American side of the ledger.'
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