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 Other Presidential Documents to fund this agreement, out of which each participating family was ultimately eligible to receive $8 million ($4 million when U.N. sanctions were lifted and $4 million when United States economic sanctions were lifted). Also, Libya referred in its letter to the U.N. Security Council to iSs cooperation with Scottish investigating authorities and pledged to cooperate in good faith with any further requests for information in connection with the Pan Am 103 investigation. In December of 2003, again after intense discussions with the United States and the United Kingdom, Libya announced its decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Category I missile programs. President Bush responded that Libya's good faith in implementing this change of policy would be reciprocated by the United States. Libya subsequently has been cooperating with relevant international institutions and with the United States and the united Kingdom to transparently and verifiably fulfill its commitment. Libya facilitated the removal of all critical elements of its declared nuclear weapons program, destroyed its munitions designed for use with toxic chemicals and secured chemical agents for destruction under international supervision, eliminated its Scud-C missile force and agreed to eliminate its Scud B missiles, and engaged in comprehensive discussions over the scope and intent of its WMD and missile programs. By September of 2004, these measures were substantially complete. At the same time, Libya moved forward in implementing its pledge to cooperate in the fight against international terrorism. Since September 11, 2001, in particular, Libya has provided excellent cooperation to the United States and other members of the international community in response to the new global threats we face. Prominent examples include: Libya's close collaboration to curtail terrorism-relaSed activities of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG); its extradition to Egypt of a member of the terror cell responsible for a bombing that claimed the lives of three tourists in a Cairo bazaar; and its role in the handover to Algeria of Amari Saifi, also known as Abderrazak al-Para, a senior figure in the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), who was responsible for the kidnapping of 32 Western tourists in Algeria in 2003. Libya is a party to all 12 international counterterrorism conventions and protocols that have been developed under the auspices of the United Nations. Libya's latest action in this regard was to become a signatory to the Convention on the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism last September. 285

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