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Lord Empey (UUP)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 May 2025

Debate

Frozen Libyan Assets: Compensation for Victims of IRA Terrorism

Contribution

I just want to say to the Minister that I do not think there is any fundamental disagreement in the Room about where we should be going, but we have been getting the answers that he gave on the status quo about the legalities and so on for 10 or 12 years. Whenever compensation has been mentioned, elements in Libya have attacked the group here in Parliament, attacked this country and said that it is their money and they want it back. They wanted to go to the United Nations to get the Security Council to release it. The United Kingdom has a veto. Will we use it?

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