Staff writer

A senior government official will visit Libya next week to discuss relations between the two countries following the United Nations Security Council's recent suspension of sanctions against the North African country, government sources said Friday.

The sources said that Kishiro Amae, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, will be the highest-level visitor from Japan to Libya since the U.N. imposed sanctions in 1992 over the Lockerbie bombing.