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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Once a pariah state promoting terrorist acts and seeking nuclear weapons, Libya in recent years has turned to promoting peace in Africa and diplomatic efforts to resolve the continent's wars, including the Darfur conflict.
The north African nation just won a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council without any U.S. opposition, but there are still concerns about its past and present ambitions and many inside and outside the U.N. will be watching closely.
Families of many victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, criticized the United States for refusing to support a rival African country to run against Libya, which officially accepted responsibility for the terrorist act in 2003.
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