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ロイター通信の大意は次のとおり。
トリポリからのロイター通信の報道によると、リビアは15日（土）、40人と見られる死者が出た米軍によるリビア爆撃20周年にあたり、あらためて米政府に謝罪と補償を要求した。
この爆撃は、米兵が利用する西ベルリンのディスコ店が1986年に爆破され、死者3人、負傷者200人を出した事件の際、リビアが爆破事件を起こしたとして、レーガン元大統領がその報復に命じたもの。
このリビア空爆では、リビア指導者のカダフィ大佐の15ヶ月になる養女ハンナちゃんも亡くなっている。
リビア政府の声明は、多くの女性、子ども、高齢者を殺害した侵略行為に補償と謝罪を求める権利を持つ、と述べるとともに、リビアはレーガンが追求した力の論理とは無縁の米国民との関係を発展させる用意がある、と述べている。
またリビア政府は、1988年と1989年にリビアがスコットランドとニジェールでの航空機爆破事件への責任を認め、保証金の支払いを始めている。
これらにもかかわらず、今年3月現在、米国務省のテロ支援国家リストにリビアはとどめられている。
2004年6月にレーガン元大統領が死亡した際、カダフィ大佐は、同元大統領がリビアの子どもたちへの犯罪行為の裁きを受けないまま亡くなったと、遺憾の意を表明した。
以下、英文元記事。
Libya renews demand for compensation for 1986 raid
Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:30am ET
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-15T153049Z_01_L15734890_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIBYA-USA-COMPENSATION.xml
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a U.S. bombing raid that killed an estimated 40 people by renewing a demand that Washington apologize and pay compensation.
A statement by the official news agency JANA also repeated a call that relations between the two countries, now undergoing a gradual rapprochement after years of turmoil, be conducted on an equal footing and without violence.
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the 1986 overnight air strikes in response to a bombing of a West Berlin discotheque used by U.S. servicemen that killed three people and wounded up to 200. Washington blamed the bombing on Libya.
"The Libyan people renewed their call for an apology," the statement said of the raid, in which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 15-month-old adopted daughter Hanna was killed.
"The Libyan people reaffirm their right to compensation for the aggression from those who caused the killing of many women, children and elderly."
"The Libyan people also reaffirm their readiness to develop their relations with the American people far from the logic of force pursued by Reagan."
Libya began to emerge from more than a decade of international ostracism in 2003 when it accepted responsibility and began paying compensation for the bombing of airliners over Scotland and Niger in 1988 and 1989.
It promised to dismantle its nuclear, chemical and biological programmes and signed additional protocols with the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
But Libyan officials have long complained of what they see as the slow pace of détente with Washington.
The United States said in March Libya would remain on the State Department's list of countries that sponsor terrorism for the time being, despite what U.S. officials have described as Tripoli's help on security matters.
Presence on the terrorism list bars a country from getting U.S. arms, controls sale of items with military and civilian applications, limits U.S. aid and requires Washington to vote against loans from international financial institutions.
When Reagan died in June 2004, Gaddafi said he regretted that the former U.S. president had died without ever being tried for what he called his crime against Libyan children -- Hanna was one of several infants among the dead.
In 2004 Libya agreed to accept civil responsibility for the Berlin bombing and paid $35 million compensation to more than 160 victims. But despite the agreement the north African country maintains its denial that it carried out the attack.
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