Moscow recongnizes Libya's TNC

Thu Sep 1, 2011

Moscow has finally recognized the Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) as the North African country's legitimate authority while a key summit on Libya is to begin in the French capital Paris.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that Moscow will continue its “close” diplomatic relations with Tripoli.

“Russia has been in close contact with the Benghazi opposition during the six months of the Libyan conflict,” Russian news agency Ria Novosti quoted Moscow's envoy to Africa Mikhail Margelov as saying on Thursday.

Margelov said that Russia took the decision “to stop bloodshed and call on political dialogue.”

The development comes as Russia remained a major critic of the NATO military intervention in Libya which is believed to have facilitated the fall of Libya's fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Margelov, heading a Russian delegation, is expected to take part at the international conference of "Friends of Libya" in Paris on Thursday.

More than 60 foreign delegations are to discuss Libya's future in the post-Gaddafi era during the Paris talks hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Premier David Cameron.

The TNC will plead for assistance on security, rebuilding and preparing for democracy in the crisis-hit country.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/196853.html.