LIBYA: NTC rules out foreign troops

Record ID: 859883

  • Title: LIBYA: NTC rules out foreign troops
  • Date: 31st August 2011
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (AUGUST 30, 2011) (REUTERS) ALI TARHOUNI, LIBYA'S NEW OIL MINISTER AT THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL ENTERING HALL JOURNALISTS SOUNDBITE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ALI TARHOUNI, LIBYA'S NEW OIL MINISTER AT THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL, SAYING: "Gadaffi is a fugitive now and I can tell you we have a good idea on the whereabouts of Gadaffi. As for the threat on oil installations, it does exist but it is not as dangerous as we feared." JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ALI TARHOUNI, LIBYA'S NEW OIL MINISTER AT THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL, SAYING: "There is no place and this is categorical, for foreign troops to protect any refinery or oil installation. That includes talk about foreign troops providing security in the capital." NEWS CONFERENCE UNDERWAY
  • Embargoed: 15th September 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Libya
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  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: Conflict
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  • Story Text: Libya's new oil minister Ali Tarhouni said on Tuesday (August 30) he expects the country's wells to start pumping oil in the coming days and that he has a good idea on the whereabouts of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.
    "Gadaffi is a fugitive now and I can tell you we have a good idea on the whereabouts of Gadaffi. As for the threat on oil installations, it does exist but it is not as dangerous as we feared," he told a news conference in Tripoli.
    Tarhouni also ruled out any foreign involvement in the security of Libya's oil fields.
    "There is no place and this is categorical, for foreign troops to protect any refinery or oil installation. That includes talk about foreign troops providing security in the capital," he said.
    Libya's interim leader gave forces loyal to deposed ruler Muammar Gaddafi a four-day deadline on Tuesday to surrender towns they still control or face a bloody end to a war that the new leadership said has so far killed 50,000 people.
    As the hunt for Gaddafi himself goes on, Libyan officials accused Algeria of an act of aggression for giving refuge to his fleeing wife and three of his children, as well as, it turned out, to a new grand-daughter, born on Tuesday.
    Algeria's Foreign Ministry said Gaddafi's wife Safia, and his sons Hannibal and Mohammed had entered Algeria on Monday morning, along with their children. His pregnant daughter Aisha was also among the party and she gave birth within a day to a girl, a source close to Algeria's health ministry said.
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