Libya gave Britain information on Libya's links with the Irish Republican Army Tuesday, and a Libyan official implied the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 also was discussed.

"I received some information," Edward Chaplin, counselor of the British Mission, told reporters. "I am transmitting it to London, and we shall study that."He confirmed that some of the information concerned the IRA, but declined to say whether the Flight 103 bombing was discussed. The bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 killed 270 people.

Chaplin met for two hours with a Libyan delegation led by Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi, a former Libyan foreign minister and current ambassador to Tunisia.

"We exchanged a lot of information which is useful to the members of the U.N. Security Council," concerning its Resolution 731, al-Obeidi said.

The resolution was passed by the council in January demanding that Libya cooperate in the American and British investigations of the bombing of Flight 103.

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On April 15, after Libya refused to turn over two Libyan suspects charged in the bombing, the council imposed an air travel ban and arms sales embargo against the North African country.

Al-Obeidi said the information exchanged was verbal rather than documents.

In the meeting, Britain was seeking information about Libya's assistance to the Irish Republican Army, including shipments of large supplies of Semtex, an explosive that is often used in IRA bombs in London and Northern Ireland.

The IRA seeks to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

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