ANGER OVER BROWN TALKS WITH GADDAFI; PM fuels Lockerbie storm at UN meeting.Byline: JAMES LYONS GORDON Brown will risk reigniting the Lockerbie row this week by holding talks with Colonel Gaddafi. The Prime Minister and Libyan dictator are due to meet at the United Nations nuclear disarmament talks in America. Ministers want to use the event to justify restoring diplomatic and trade links with his regime. In return, the Libyan leader has agreed to abandon his efforts to develop an atomic bomb atomic bomb or A-bomb, weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei (see nuclear energy). The first atomic bomb was produced at the Los Alamos, N.Mex. . But the meeting will intensify fury about the decision to free Abdelbaset Ali al Megrahi, the only person convicted over the Lockerbie bombing. Revealing Mr Brown expects to shake Gaddafi's hand, a Downing Street insider said: "This is a good opportunity to highlight Libya has come in from the cold and given up its nuclear programme." The PM and the Libyan leader will meet at talks chaired by President Barack Obama at the UN's HQ in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Thursday. It is Gaddafi's first visit to the US since coming to power in a coup 40 years ago. Relatives of the 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan AM flight 103 over Lockerbie plan to protest outside the UN on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the meeting. Tony Blair shook Gaddafi's hand when the pair struck their infamous "deal in the desert" two years ago. The agreement paved the way for Megrahi's release from his Scottish jail. The ex-intelligence officer, who is dying from prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. , was freed on compassionate grounds last month. Ministers have repeatedly denied he was allowed home in return for oil and trade concessions. to This week's UN meeting also comes as Mr Brown faces mounting pressure to get results on the murder of WPC WPC (in Britain) woman police constable WPC (Brit) n abbr (= woman police constable) → Polizistin f WPC n abbr (BRIT Yvonne Fletcher. She was shot outside the Libyan embassy in 1984 by a gunman hidden inside. Britain has agreed not to seek the killer's extradition as part of a diplomatic deal. But John Murray, a fellow PC who cradled Yvonne in his arms as she lay dying, said yesterday: "It makes a mockery of all I fought for in my career." Queenie Fletcher, Yvonne's 76-yearold mum, said she did not see how the PM could avoid shaking Gaddafi's hand. But she added: "Just make it clear we want an end to this whole affair." CAPTION(S): CONTROVERSIAL Gordon Brown shakes hands at meeting during July's G8 summit |
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