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 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 113 STAT. 789 (3) An assessment of the current status and the future ^ direction of weapons of mass destruction programs and ballistic missile programs of North Korea, including a determination as to whether or not North Korea— (A) is continuing to pursue a nuclear weapons program; (B) is seeking equipment and technology with which to enrich uranium; and (C) is pursuing an offensive biological weapons program. (c) i^PROPRiATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES. —In this section, the term "appropriate congressional committees" means— (1) the Committee on International Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. SEC. 1234. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDWG THE CONTINUATION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST LIBYA. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress makes the following findings: (1) On December 21, 1988, 270 people, including 189 United States citizens, were killed in a terrorist bombing on Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. (2) The United Kingdom and the United States indicted two Libyan intelligence agents, Abd al-Baset Ali al-Megrahi and Al-Amin Khalifah Fhimah, in 1991 and sought their extradition from Libya to the United States or the United Kingdom to stand trial for this heinous terrorist act. (3) The United Nations Security Council called for the extradition of those suspects in Security Council Resolution 731 and imposed sanctions on Libya in Security Council Resolutions 748 and 883 because Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Qadhafi refused to transfer the suspects to either the United States or the United Kingdom to stand trial. (4) United Nations Security Council Resolutions 731, 748, and 883 demand that Libya cease all support for terrorism, turn over the two suspects, cooperate with the investigation and the trial, and address the issue of appropriate compensation. (5) The sanctions in United Nations Security Council Resolutions 748 and 883 include— (A) a worldwide ban on Libya's national airline; (B) a ban on flights into and out of Libya by other nations' airlines; and (C) a prohibition on supplying arms, airplane parts, and certain oil equipment to Libya, and a blocking of Libyan Government funds in other countries. (6) Colonel Muammar Qadhafi for many years refused to extradite the suspects to either the United States or the United Kingdom and had insisted that he would only transfer the suspects to a third and neutral country to stand trial. (7) On August 24, 1998, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to the proposal that Colonel Qadhafi transfer the suspects to The Netherlands, where they would stand trial under a Scottish court, under Scottish law, and with a panel of Scottish judges. Pan American Flight 103. Abd al-Baset Ali al-Megraihi. Al-Amin Khalifah Fhimah. Muammar Qadhafi.

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