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No immunity for Irish diplomats due to territorial claim


No immunity for Irish diplomats due to territorial claim
Declassified Northern Ireland Office files show that Irish officials working at the joint Anglo-Irish Secretariat did not have diplomatic immunity
Éamon Phoenix
30 December, 2020 00:01
IRISH officials working at the joint Anglo-Irish Secretariat at Maryfield, Co Down, did not have diplomatic immunity due to the Republic’s constitutional claim over the north.
Declassified files show that the issue of immunity was raised following a parliamentary question by the UK Unionist MP for North Down, Bob McCartney, in March 1997.
Mr McCartney asked foreign secretary Sir Malcom Rifkind whether Irish members of the Maryfield Secretariat and those involved in the Stormont talks had been granted diplomatic immunity and what level of immunity of arrest and criminal charges this gave . ....

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UK opposed US push to expand Gaddafi sanctions over Lockerbie -- records


After a US and UK investigation, arrest warrants were issued for two Libyans in 1991.
Then British Prime Minister John Major and then US President Bill Clinton arrive for their joint news conference at the White House, April 4, 1995. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
At the time of the papers, the UK was urging for Libya to surrender the suspects for trial in the US or the UK, while Libya was calling for a “neutral” court to try the men.
The papers show that Britain thought Gaddafi would never hand over the bombing suspects.
A Foreign Office official, Richard Stagg, wrote to Major’s private secretary Roderic Lyne in November 1995: “We should like to try the two accused and secure convictions. But the likelihood of Gaddafi handing them over is negligible.” ....

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UK Opposed Clinton Call For UN Push Against Kadhafi: Records


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Britain opposed a bid by US president Bill Clinton to expand UN sanctions on Libya under dictator Moamer Kadhafi, while seeking to extradite the Lockerbie bombers, previously secret government papers showed on Wednesday.
Cabinet Office correspondence, released by the National Archives covering the years 1995 and 1996, showed the UK was concerned at the possible impact of expanded Security Council sanctions on Britain s $230 million annual exports to Libya, especially of oil-producing equipment.
The prime minister at the time, John Major, wrote to Clinton in late 1995 dissuading him from a new resolution, after the US leader had appealed for Britain s support. ....

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