By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - said British police to investigate the Libyan Government Libya, the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the unresolved 1984 killing of a police officer in London will go, a British Minister on Thursday.
Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt, who with Libyan Minister in Tripoli last week talks, said that the Libyan Government had fresh conduct permission for British police investigations in the two shadowy episodes occurred under the reign of late strongman Muammar al-Gaddafi.
"I have absolute confidence that the police of Dumfries and Galloway (in Scotland) and the Metropolitan Police (in London) go back to Libya to their studies once again going to get and they get a positive way of the Libyan authorities," Burt Reuters said in a telephone interview.
Burt, the Foreign Office said the Ministers responsible for North Africa and the Middle East, or no date had been set for a visit to the police, noting that the Libyan authorities had to deal with a lot of other problems in a turbulent post-Gaddafi transition.
But he said that in his talks with Libyan Interior Minister Fawzi Abd al am all and Foreign Minister Ashour Hayal, both had recognised the importance of the so-called "legacy" issues.
The bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland include the killing of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London and Libyan aid for Irish Republican Army guerrillas in 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.
Fletcher, 25, died after triggered by a shot of the Embassy during a demonstration against Gaddafi. After a siege of 11-tägigen 30 Libyans at the Embassy were carried off and no one was ever accused of their murder.
Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was in 2001 a "significant role in planning and committing" condemned the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans.
He shared was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum prison 27 years, but returned to Libya in August 2009 after liberation from a Scottish jail on the grounds that he was suffering from prostate cancer in late stage. He is still alive.
The decision angered many victims relatives and asked strained traditionally strong relations between Britain and the United States, with some US politicians, safe giant BP contracts in Libya help whether it had developed for oil.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who took office in May 2010, called the publication an error. However, Scotland has responsibility for their own legislation after decentralisation 1999.
A British newspaper knew the whereabouts of a former diplomat for the Fletcher wanted to kill Libyan officials said in August. In the same month were officials from Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) contradictory statements, whether they all suspect abroad be tried would allow.
Great Britain played a leading role of NATO's air campaign, which helped to topple NTC fighters Gaddafi in August.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft)
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