Mubarak again refused to acquiesce in US plans to isolate Libya in the 1990’s for its involvement in the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Instead of ostracizing Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mubarak welcomed him to Cairo. After the United Nations imposed an international flight ban against Libya in 1992, its land crossings with Egypt proved crucial to Libya’s economy (and possibly Qaddafi’s political survival). Libya withstood the sanctions in part by importing food and oil infrastructure supplies via Egypt, and by exporting petroleum and steel with Mubarak’s help.
在1990年代穆巴拉克拒绝加入美国因利比亚参与泛美航空公司洛克比空难而对其执行的孤立政策，同时不但没有排斥利比亚领导人卡扎菲，甚至还邀请他到开罗访问。在联合国在1992年禁止一切国际航班进出利比亚后，该国与埃及的陆地边界就成为了利比亚的经济命脉（或许也是卡扎菲没有倒台的原因），利比亚在某种程度上通过从埃及进口食品和石油生产设施挺过了制裁，并在穆巴拉克的帮助下出口汽油和钢材。