Keynote speaker Uta Werner, corporate vice president and chief strategy officer of Xerox Corporation, rounded out the speaker list.

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After the Lockerbie deal was reached, French officials said the initial UTA deal was inadequate -- and that families of French victims deserved more.

CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'

De Villepin said on Thursday that families of the 170 people killed in the 1989 bombing of a French UTA DC-10 reached a compensation deal with Libya the night before.

CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'

PARIS, France -- France says it will no longer oppose a U.N. resolution to lift sanctions on Libya after UTA bomb victims' families reached a deal, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said.

CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'

Libya has never accepted responsibility for the downing of the UTA flight above Niger which claimed 170 lives, but agreed to pay compensation after a Paris court convicted six Libyans of the bombing in absentia.

BBC: NEWS | Africa | UN lifts Libya sanctions

France had threatened to hold up the lifting of U.N. sanctions imposed on Libya for the 1988 bombing of the Pan Am 103 airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, if Libya did not satisfy the UTA families' demands.

CNN: France 'stops blocking Libya deal'

It said it wanted more compensation for the families of 170 victims of the UTA plane bombed over Niger, but eventually dropped its opposition after a more favorable deal with Libya was reportedly struck over the crash.

CNN: France: Pay more to UTA families