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NEWS STORY
02/27/1998 08:02:00
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World Court declares jurisdiction in Lockerbie dispute
UR Eds: RECASTS lead to clarify; ADDS detail of U.S. and British
objections in 3rd graf. QL
UR AP Photo staffing QL
UR By MIKE CORDER QC
UR Associated Press Writer QC
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The World Court Friday rejected
U.S. and British objections to a Libyan World Court case that has blocked the trial of two Libyans suspected of blowing up a Pan Am
jumbo jet over Scotland in 1988.
Libya, which brought the case to the United Nations' highest
judicial body in its dispute with the United States and Britain,
hailed the ruling and said it would press anew for a trial in a
third neutral country.
Both U.S. and British officials filed objections to the court's
jurisdiction in 1995, claiming Security Council resolutions imposed
on Lybia to force the suspects' extradition overruled a 1971
Convention which gives Libya the right to try the men.
The decision, 3rd graf pvs.
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