Thursday, March 24, 2011

The rebels deny that they have appointed a new leader

The Interim National Transitional Council (CNTI) Libya has denied Jabril Mahmud has been appointed new head of an interim government by the rebels, as reported by the Qatari channel Al Jazeera. CNTI spokesman, Abdelhafiz Hoga, told a press conference in Benghazi (Libya) who tried to "a misunderstanding" and that he himself was the first Jabril surprised to learn of the news.

According Hoga, Jabril was appointed a month ago the head of emergency relief committee of the rebels, but also took care of its external representation with Eisawi Ali, who assumed the task of negotiating with the international community's recognition CNTI. In that sense, he traveled to Paris to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the first to officially recognize the rebels.

Hoga explained that due to that task, Jabril could not complete his team for the emergency relief committee a month ago, so now in Benghazi to do so. The spokesman said the team "in no way a government is 'per se'" which will direct part of the country temporarily. He recalled that at the moment is the capital Tripoli, Libya and "there is no division of the country, so can not form any new government." The CNTI, based in Benghazi, was founded on February 27, ten days after the start of popular uprising against the regime of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.

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