/ 8 May 1999

MANDELA TO HONOUR LOCKERBIE NEGOTIATORS

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is to honour his director-general Jakes Gerwel and Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, for their efforts in mediating an end to the Lockerbie dispute, his office said on Saturday. The two men will receive special awards at a lunch hosted by Mandela in Cape Town on Tuesday, an official statement said. The men were instrumental in persuading Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to hand over two suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing for trial in the Netherlands under a Scottish court. The suspects are accused of placing a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded in mid-air over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 270 people.