Politicians from Northern Ireland are holding talks in Libya on possible help for the reconciliation process in the province, a Libyan official said in statements published on Monday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Abdelati al-Obeidi told Oea newspaper that the delegation of lawmakers "came to propose that Libya back the reconciliation project and aid to development in Northern Ireland."
The delegation met senior officials, including Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa, on Sunday and Monday, state news agency JANA reported without referring to the issue of compensation.
Delegation members had said on Saturday that their talks would also focus on compensation for victims of Irish Republican Army attacks during three decades of violence in Northern Ireland.
Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi's regime is believed to have supplied the IRA with weapons and explosives in the 1980s for its fight against British rule in Northern Ireland.
On Saturday Democratic Unionist Party MP Jeffrey Donaldson, who is among the six-strong group, said that while discussions had already been held on the issue this would be the first face-to-face meeting with ministers in Tripoli.
He told the BBC before flying to Libya for the three-day visit that the families of some victims of IRA attacks were seeking individual compensation for their loss, but that the visit also had a wider aim.
"What we are also trying to achieve is the establishment of a peace and reconciliation fund that will help to promote peace in Northern Ireland and move us beyond the legacy of the conflict... and we believe the Libyans can contribute towards the establishment of such a fund.
"We will be putting the case directly to the Libyan government," he said.
Lawyers for the victims' families said in a recent statement that the fact the visit was taking place was a welcome sign of progress in the campaign for compensation.
"The victims view this as a significant step forward, as well as recognition by both countries that their plight will not be overlooked as Anglo-Libyan relations develop," it said.
"They sincerely hope that, following the parliamentarian team's visit, Libya will review its position toward them and appreciate that they wish to visit Libya in the spirit of peace and reconciliation."
Links between the IRA and Gathafi are thought to stretch back as far as 1972, and Czech-made Semtex explosives understood to have been supplied by Libya was one of the IRA's most lethal weapons.
The IRA, which renounced violence in 2005 in a key move in the peace process, wanted Northern Ireland to be part of the Republic of Ireland and was the main Catholic militant group in the conflict which killed more than 3,000 people.
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