Huge Libyan investment to develop Northern Ireland’s oil industry was part of a possible set of reparations under discussion between the UK and Libya.
The idea was one option given to Libya as part of reparations over its past supply of Semtex and other explosives to the IRA.
A senior Ulster Unionist peer, Lord Laird, a former MP at Stormont, saw such an investment as a key part of reconciliation for the past actions for Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
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