BERLIN (AP) - Libya agreed Tuesday to pay $35 million in compensation for non-U.S. victims of a 1986 bombing in Berlin that killed two American servicemen and a Turkish woman and injured 229 other people.
It is the latest step in an effort by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to end his country's pariah status. Libya has agreed to pay $2.7 billion to the families of victims from the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie and $170 million in compensation for the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Niger.
After Tuesday's deal was announced, the German government said improved relations were now possible with Libya and that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will visit the North African nation soon, though no date was set.
The German government and companies are ready to help Libya modernize its economy, a government statement said, pointing to ``the intensification of bilateral relations that has now become possible.''
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