[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A bigwig at Libya's new Presidential Council denied on Saturday that groups who entered a hotel where the body meets had been armed or used force, playing down an incident that had appeared to illustrate the risks facing the unity government.
Earlier, the Council's spokeswoman had said gangs had stormed the Corinthia Hotel on Friday, though she also said nobody from the body had been in the building at the time.
"There was no kidnapping, gunfire, or an attack on me or the hotel," the head of the Presidential Council's office, Mohammed al-Mabrouk said in a social media video, adding that he had been in the hotel at the time of the incident.
Mabrouk said the head of the Presidential Council, which functions as Libya's head of state for now, would meet with the groups involved.
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The Presidential Council was chosen through a United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
-facilitated process that also selected a new Government of National Unity (GNU) that took office in March, replacing rival administrations in east and west.
Armed groups based in western Libya have voiced anger at the GNU Foreign Minister, Najla al-Manqoush.
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