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Libyan oil minister defects, says he might join opposition
Blog Submitted by asiagqh on 09/06/2011 at 1:36 AM Report Blog

 

Libya’s oil minister confirmed Wednesday that he’s defected and said he’s considering signing up with the opposition movement.The announcement, another blow to the Moammar Gadhafi regime, comes after NATO said it has decided to extend its mission in Libya by 90 days, World Cup Football Shirt continuing a campaign that began in March.Shukri Ghanem told CNN in Rome that he left Libya because the suffering of the people became too unbearable.”

This war is getting even worse every day and there is no end to it and we would like to end this thing peacefully and come back to a solution quickly to reinstate democracy and constitutional government,” he said. Ghanem, Football National Teams 68, is the latest of several top Libyan officials to depart from the regime since the unrest there started in February. Among them was Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa. The country’s interior and justice ministers and other diplomats are part of the opposition movement trying to topple the Gadhafi regime.The opposition’s National Transitional Council is based in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.

Ghanem couldn’t predict how long the Gadhafi regime will last but said the strongman’s political structure is in shambles. He said he doesn’t know how long he’ll be in Rome or when he’ll return to Libya.As for the NATO mission extension, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a statement saying, Brazil Football Shirt “We are determined to continue our operation to protect the people of Libya.”We will sustain our efforts to fulfill the United Nations mandate. We will keep up the pressure to see it through.” Resolution 1973 was approved by the U.N. Security Council in March and authorized member states “to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory.”The Libyan government has accused NATO of killing hundreds of civilians and wounding thousands more during a two-month bombing campaign in Libya.

Between March 19 and May 26, NATO air strikes have killed 718 “civilian martyrs,” according to Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim, who on Tuesday accused the alliance of acting outside “the limits of international law.” Another 4,067 were injured, Brazil Shirt he said.CNN cannot independently verify the figures.The government released the numbers after meetings between Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and South African President Jacob Zuma in which the men discussed a possible African Union-brokered cease-fire, Ibrahim said.Under the prospective accord, “everything would be on the table,” said Ibrahim, “including the place and position of Gadhafi.”But, Ibrahim said, the country’s longtime ruler would not step down from power as a prerequisite for further dialogue concerning the prospective cease-fire.Zuma had “lengthy discussions” with Gadhafi, his office said in a news release.

“We call on all leaders in Libya to exercise decisive leadership to find a solution to the crisis in the country, and to put the interests of their country first,” Zuma said in the release.He also urged “NATO and other parties to respect the (African Union’s) role in searching for a solution.”An intensified NATO campaign has resulted in sizable defections from the Gadhafi camp, including eight generals who recently fled to Italy, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General B. Lynn Pascoe said in a written statement.In recent weeks, Gadhafi has been seen in public only rarely as NATO has stepped up attacks against his sprawling Bab el-Azizia compound.

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