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| US Pledges Support to Libya's New Leadership | |
| 2011-09-15 | |
| [Tripoli Post] Senior U.S. State Department official Jeffrey Feltman Wednesday arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to show support for the country's new leaders, and for talks with Libya's new leaders, Libya's National Transitional Council NTC. After meeting with Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the NTC, said the US would reopen its embassy in Tripoli. Feltman, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, is the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Tripoli since the NTC fighters freed it from the control of the Muammar Al Qadaffy ...whose instability has been an inspiration to dictators everywhere... regime on August 23. According to a senior envoy, Washington is encouraged by the increasing control Libya's interim rulers are exercising over security forces in the country. Pledging US support for the National Transitional Council, Mr Feldman said: "We remain encouraged by growing command and control over security and police forces." In his statement after his meeting with the NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the American politician went on to say: "We understand that this is a difficult task," adding: "Libya's interim leadership is solidifying the steps and integrating militias under one civilian authority." "Libya's interim leadership is solidifying the steps and integrating militias under one civilian authority." Answering journalists about the strength of Islamist groups in the NTC that overthrew the former dictator, he said: "We are not concerned that one group will be able to dominate the aftermath of what has been a shared struggle."
Mr Feltman said that the US and its international partners have an enduring commitment to supporting the Libyan people as they chart their country's future. "This," he said, includes working with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... and our coalition partners to continue operations to protect Libyan civilians until they are no longer under threat." Mr Feltman's visit comes on top of the official opening of the Libyan embassy in New York and the acceptance of the credentials of the new Libyan ambassador to the US. The US envoy's visit to Libya follows preparations by John Polaschik, the number two at the US embassy in Libya who returned to Tripoli on Saturday with a small advance team to make official preliminary contacts before Mr Feltman's visit. Soon, the US also expects to reopen the U.S. diplomatic mission in Tripoli, again under former ambassador Ambassador Gene Cretz at the helm. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Birds of a feather, RJ. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-09-15 04:40 |
| #1 Idiots, they're still an Islamic thugocracy, leave them at arms length (At least an ocean away, forgot 9/11 so soon) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-09-15 02:58 |