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Tony Blair urged Nelson Mandela not to discuss Lockerbie trial, papers show

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Blair wrote to then South African leader in 1997 after aides said raising issue at summit in Scotland would be ‘pretty disastrous’

documents reveal the urgency for Blair to write or speak to Mandela “to extinguish any thoughts he [Mandela] may harbour of stimulating a collective discussion of Lockerbie in the Chogm plenary” in Scotland, “where feelings on Lockerbie run high”, one FCO briefing reads.

 

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