Under pressure from the United States, Libya said it regretted recent statements by its prime minister that it was not responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing.
The statement, carried by the official Jana news agency and monitored in Washington, is expected to clear the way for the White House to quickly lift travel restrictions and take other steps to improve diplomatic relations with Libya for agreeing to scrap its nuclear weapons program.
The United States had sought a public retraction of comments by Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem denying his country's guilt in the Lockerbie bombing.
A senior State Department official said the initial US reaction to the statement was, "They have done what they needed to do."
An announcement lifting the travel ban was put on hold to protest the remarks by Ghanem, who said on Tuesday that Tripoli had only agreed to pay compensation to bombing victims to buy peace.
In its statement, Libya said it wanted "to set the record straight and be perfectly clear about its position" on the Lockerbie bombing. The statement quoted from a letter to the United Nations stating that it "accepts responsibility for the actions of its officials."
"Recent statements contradicting or casting doubt on these positions are inaccurate and regrettable," the statement said.