The BBC reported Friday that Britain was considering canceling a planned visit to Libya by Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, who has visited the country several times in his role as a British trade ambassador.
Prince Andrew's office said a visit for next month was in the planning stages and that Buckingham Palace was taking advice from the Foreign Office. The Foreign Office would not confirm that the visit would be canceled.
The possible cancellation comes as Britain condemned the upsetting scenes of jubilation in Tripoli at the return of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of blowing up Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. U.S. President Barack Obama said the warm welcome in Libya was highly objectionable.
Thousands of young men greeted al-Megrahi's plane at a Tripoli airport after he was released from a Scottish prison Thursday on compassionate grounds. GPD © AP
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