UN General Assembly
1994

would be available to establish the truth, indeed the very aim of Security Council resolution 731 (1992). Recently, new information on the American aircraft incident has been uncovered, including a book entitled Tracking the Octopus by Coleman and Donald and the statements by the manager of a Swiss electronics company. These new revelations obliterate the central 11 element on which the accusations against the two Libyan citizens was based. Despite all this, Libya maintained its cooperation in trying to identify all the circumstances surrounding the incident. On this basis, Libya accepted the proposal of the Council of the League of Arab States contained in its resolution 5373 of 27 March 1994. That proposal called for trying the two suspects by Scottish judges under Scottish law at the seat of the International Court of Justice. Even after new information was revealed by the Palestinian citizen, Yousef Shaaban, before a Lebanese Court, Libya did not hesitate to go ahead with the trial and did not waver in its declared readiness to accept any verdict emanating from such a trial.