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AU commission chairman says events in Libya have reached a decisive stage. The u.s. Says it will soon release $1. Billion in frozen Libyan assets. Amnesty International says it has evidence pro-gadhafi forces killed detainees.
AU commission chairman says events in Libya have reached a decisive stage. The u.s. Says it will soon release $1. Billion in frozen Libyan assets. Amnesty International says it has evidence pro-gadhafi forces killed detainees.
AU commission chairman says events in Libya have reached a decisive stage. The u.s. Says it will soon release $1. Billion in frozen Libyan assets. Amnesty International says it has evidence pro-gadhafi forces killed detainees.
recognize Libya's opposition coalition as the country's new government. The more than 50-m em ber bloc has declined to recognize the opposition Transitional National Council (TNC). But AU commission chairman Jean Ping said Friday that events in Libya had reached a decisive stage over the past few days. He noted that the TNC had entered Tripoli and taken control. Meanwhile, TNC leader Mahmoud Jibril says the only way his group cdn succeed is if the international community frees all of the assets frozen during Moammar Gadhafi's reign. He said Friday that the opposition needs the money in order to pay the salaries of civil servants and maintain services. Also, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said Friday the country wanted to see Gadhafi's assets re distributed to Libyans. France was the first power to recognize the opposition TNC.
On Thursday, the United States said it soon will release
$1.5 billion in frozen Libyan assets to the country's opposition-run council for urgent humanitarian aid. The U.N. Security Council approved the funds' release after the United States and South Africa reached a deal, designating where the funds would go. Earlier, South Africa had expressed hesitation about releasing the funds, concerned they might end up in the wrong hands. In a separate development Friday, the Amnesty International rights group said it had uncovered evidence indicating that pro-Gadhafi forces had killed "numerous detainees" at two military camps in Tripoli this week. The rights group said detainees who managed to escape had described how government forces used live ammunition and grenades on captives. The group urged Gadhafi loyalists to immediately stop the killings. Some information fo r this report was provided by AFP and Reuters,
Libyan Rebel Chief Says Success
Hinges on Releasing Assets. he head of Libyas rebel he had attended a meeting of government says the only way diplomats a day earlier focused it can succeed is if the on the Libyan crisis. The stop in international community frees all ofTurkey was the latest in his European tour this week aimed his countrys assets frozen during at gaining the release of Libyan Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's reign. assets frozen abroad. Libyas Transitional National Council chief Mahmud Jabril said Friday that On Thursday, the United States said it soon will release $1.5 the opposition needs the money in billion in frozen Libyan assets to order to pay the salaries of civil servants and maintain services. the country's opposition-run council for urgent humanitarian He was speaking in Istanbul, where aid.
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The United Nations Security Council
approved the funds' release after the United States and South Africa reached a deal, designating where the funds would go. Earlier, South Africa had expressed hesitation about releasing the funds, concerned they may end up in the wrong hands, Instead of asking that the funds be released specifically to the opposition's Transitional National Council, Washington changed the authorization to say they will be designated