§ Mr. WorthingtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the response of the Arab League to the Libyan proposal that the two suspects in the Lockerbie incident be tried before the International Court of Justice in the Hague with Scottish judges sitting on the bench applying Scottish law; and what is now his policy on the suggestion.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggFollowing its ministerial meeting in Cairo on 26 to 27 March, the Arab League issued a resolution urging the Security Council to consider this proposal.
Our policy on the suggestion was set out in a written reply given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) on 8 February 1994, Official Report, column 135.