"Our vision is that the UN and the EU will play a leading role in the post-Gaddafi period. The announcement about the EU liaison office in Benghazi was made last week in Strasbourg by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. On Tuesday, after meeting Ashton, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that her government is "working with the EU to support the Transitional National Council, and we welcome the EU's decision to open an office in Benghazi and the ongoing EU support for humanitarian assistance." "I went to Benghazi to assess the intentions and credibility of the Transitional National Council and Libyan opposition," Sikorski wrote on Project Syndicate on Sunday. The EU considers the TNC a legitimate political interlocutor, Sikorski told the opposition leaders, urging them to live up to the standards of a democratic and transparent government.

Source: Libya Today August 04, 2022 10:33 UTC