He persuaded Libya's Muammar Qaddafi to hand over the perpetrators of the Lockerbie bombing.
Scottish police and prosecutors have visited Libya to discuss the investigation into the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
He has secured a promise that police investigating the Lockerbie bombing could visit here to pursue their enquiries.
The Lockerbie bombing killed all 259 people on board the flight, as well as 11 people on the ground.
The U.N. sanctions were imposed in 1992 to put pressure on Libya to turn over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing.
In 1999, he turned over suspects in the Lockerbie bombing, and in 2003 the country agreed to eliminate weapons of mass destruction.
Last week, a Scottish appeal court rejected a bail application from Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing.
The UN sanctions were imposed in the early 1990s to pressure Libya into handing over two men suspected of involvement in the Lockerbie bombing.
Meanwhile, Scotland's most senior law officer, Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland, has met Mr El-Keib in London to discuss further inquires into the Lockerbie bombing.
The proposals in the second part of the bill were prompted by the case of Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi, who was convicted of murder following the Lockerbie bombing.
The Scottish government said it would probe any new leads surrounding the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, should information come to light following the developments in Libya.
The Libyan cleared of causing the Lockerbie bombing has returned to Tripoli to a hero's welcome a day after being freed by a Scottish court in the Netherlands.
The Crown Office has refused to comment on reports in Malta that a special closed court hearing was held there to gather new evidence about the Lockerbie bombing.
The Crown Office said that as the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing remained live, it would not comment further on the relocation of the wreckage from Farnborough to Scotland.
The retired Scottish judge, who sat on the Lockerbie bombing trial, said a criminal sentenced to two years in prison should serve the full term rather than being released early on parole.
The US had communicated to the Libyan government that "such a welcome sends the wrong message and is deeply offensive to the families of the hundreds of people who lost their lives in the Lockerbie bombing", the White House said.
Since his retirement in 1999, Mandela has turned his attention to international diplomacy: He convinced Libya to hand over two suspects for trial in the Lockerbie airplane bombing, and he played a role in the Burundi peace process.
Libya started to come in from the cold around 2003 by relinquishing its weapons of mass destruction program, agreeing to help fight terrorism and later paying large sums to the families of terrorism victims, including those killed in the airliner bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, for which a Libyan was convicted.
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The only man ever convicted of the aircraft bombing above the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, which killed 270 people, was controversially released by the Scottish government in August 2009 on the ground that his prostate cancer would kill him within three months.
The Libyan government is to make payments to the families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
Al Megrahi was convicted, in January this year, of mass murder over the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, with the loss of 270 lives.
Libya accepted responsibility last year for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, and is to pay compensation to the families of the 270 victims.
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.
In a statement, Cardinal O'Brien, the archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, described the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie as an "act of unbelievable horror and gratuitous barbarity".
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