Case concerning questions of interpretation and application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the aerial incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States of America) =

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On 3 March 1992, Libya filed two applications instituting proceedings against the United Kingdom and the United States of America concerning disputes on the interpretation or application of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation signed in Montreal on 23 September 1971. Libya referred to charges made by the Lord Advocate of Scotland and an American grand jury against two Libyan nationals suspected of having caused the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988, in which 270 people died. The U.K. and U.S. demanded that Libya surrender the suspects for trial either in Scotland or in the United States. Libya's argument was that it had no extradition treaty with those countries and that according to the Montreal Convention it was entitled to try the suspects itself

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• General list -- no. 89
• Reports of judgments, advisory opinions and orders = Recueil des arrêts, avis consultatifs et ordonnances

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