NICOLAS Sarkozy and David Cameron, with delegations of businessmen plus NATO officers, visited Tripoli yesterday to try to shore up the split and divided counter-revolutionary NTC.
It is split and divided with ex-Gadaffi ministers and Al Qaeda veterans at each other’s throats.
The failure to defeat Colonel Gadaffi has sharpened the differences and led to threats and fears of assassinations.
At a press conference the NTC prime minister, Jibril, urged the two imperialist leaders to continue supporting the NTC militarily.
Cameron, when he spoke said of the ongoing war: ‘This is not over.’
He added: ‘This is not finished, not done, and there are difficulties ahead.’
He said that the NATO mission would continue until civilians were safe and ‘we will help to find Gadaffi and bring him to justice’.
Cameron was asked by a journalist, wasn’t the situation one in which the NTC had no confidence to move from Benghazi to Tripoli and that they now wanted more weapons and more military help and didn’t control the majority of the country.
In his reply, all that Cameron could say was that they had held this meeting today in Tripoli and ‘I hope they can go on proving people wrong’.
He added that today efforts would be made through the UN Security Council to unfreeze Libyan funds and in that case, the British government would be able to help in freeing up to £12 billion in Libyan assets held in London.
Cameron was asked about Gadaffi’s whereabouts and said he had no knowledge.
Sarkozy, when addressing the conference, said: ‘We have been the first to recognise the NTC’, adding: ‘We rely on our friends in the NTC to preserve unity.’
This was ‘the most precious thing to do’.
He called on the NTC to rely on France and Europe, declaring ‘we have a common destiny’.
In answering questions, Sarkozy sought to prove that imperialist France was an innocent, and had no designs on Libya’s oil.
He stressed: ‘There is no agreement, there is no behind-the-scenes agreement about resources in Libya.’
He added: ‘We are for no preference’, and ‘have not thought about any political gains’.
This is after revelations that in April France signed documents with the NTC, handing over 37 per cent of Libya’s oil, as soon as the NTC was able to do so.
Sarkozy continued that NATO strikes will continue ‘as long as “free Libya’’ is in danger’.
He continued to launch an attack on Syria.
He said that he hoped that ‘Syrian youth will have the same chance as the Libyans’ and that ‘Syria will one day be free’.
