(Updates with report of an attack on rebels in the ninth paragraph.) EXTRA and put to learn more about the disorders in the region.)
April 14 (Bloomberg)--Libyan rebels want to borrow at least $ 2 billion to buy food, medicines, fuel and perhaps weapons as their foreign allies of the need to do more to help prevail over the forces of Muammar Kadhafi.Les members of the so-called Libyan contact said in a statement to the Qatar that they can create a "temporary financial mechanism" to fund the rebels using Libyan Government assets frozen abroad.Short-term loans are "an option on the table that we discussed" at the meeting of the Qatar, Ali Tarhoni, Minister of finance acting Transitional National Council, said in an interview in Benghazi. The loan, which can be for as long as two years, could be repaid when the Libyan assets are frozen, Tarhoni said. The reserves of the Central Bank of Benghazi rebels may be not enough to cover the needs of import for a month, he said.The contact group, which includes the United States, the United Kingdom, the France and other countries providing military support, agreed at the meeting that "Qathafi and his regime had lost all legitimacy and it should leave power, allowing the Libyan people to determine their own future"according to a statement issued yesterday after the meeting of Doha.Qatari"." "Prime Minister Hamad bin Jasim Al-Thani said that his country would" be in "provision of military equipment to the rebels." In London, Prime Minister David Cameron told the BBC that the United Kingdom would provide body armor.Franco-British CommitmentLibya was effectively divided in two since the beginning of the conflict in two months, a division that has helped the thrust of the price of oil up to 25 percent. Crude for may delivery fell 0.2% to $106.85 US per barrel at 6 a.m. in New York. He has reached one year of 2 1/2 high of $112.79 a barrel on April 8. Libya has large reserves of oil in Africa. Qatar confirmed April 12 that he sells on behalf of the opposition Libyan oil and supplies energy products to Benghazi.NATO air strikes against the military of Qathafi since March 19 have not stopped artillery attacks and snipers on cities like Misrata, in the West of the country, or enabled the rebels to take and hold permanently cities strategic such as the port of Ras Lanuf.Eight oil rebels were killed in an attack by the Government near Misratatelevision Al Jazeera reported today.No Let-UpCameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which met in Paris yesterday, reiterated their commitment to evict Qathafi and claim no let-up in the air attacks, according to a French official, who spoke on the condition that he is not identified. Leaders agreed that arming rebels would not violate the embargo of the United Nations, said the official.There are divisions between the countries of NATO on ways for democracy in Libya, while the allies are United around this objective, Minister for Foreign Affairs French Alain Juppe told journalists in Berlin today.Foreign Minister Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi the Libya said that Qathafi seeks a political solution to the war along the lines of proposed African Union this week, involving a withdrawal of troops from civilian areas, in accordance with his Cypriot counterpart Markos Kyprianou, which met today to Obeidi in Nicosia. The Libya Government will cooperate with the European Union and international organizations on care supplies, said Obeidi, according to rebel Kyprianou.The dismissed the African plan because it do not start of Qathafi .the specify ' NATO Foreign Ministersincluding the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, meet today in Berlin to consider what other measures could be taken by the alliance, which had been hampered in its effort to stop the assault on Misrata. ' Area ' Qathafi protected in Misrata may constitute war crimes, Clinton said yesterday. She gave no indication of what additional measures NATO can take to stop it.Provisional Government of rebels appeal to the United Nations to declare an "internationally protected zone" Misrata and help prevent the "massacre of men, women and children" in the besieged city. "" He is fighting underway and electricity and water have been cut throughout the city ", making it difficult to distribute aid reaching Misrata by sea, Abdulhamid Elmadani, Secretary General of the Libyan Red Cross, said in an interview yesterday in Benghazi. He said that the other three Western Libyan cities, with about 15,000 people in each, are in even worse straits that they do not have the port which allows shipments to reach Misrata .more that 1,000 people were killed and "several thousand" wounded in Misrata headquarters for six weeks, according to Suleiman Fortia, a spokesman for the Council of the rebels.-With the help of Viola Gienger in Washington, white of Gatt in London, Stelios Orphanides Nicosia, Maria Petrakis in Athens and Gregory Viscusi in Paris. Editors: Terry Atlas, Ben Holland, Louis Meixler.
To contact the reporters on this story: Robert Tuttle in Doha, rtuttle@bloomberg.net; Caroline Alexander in London at calexander1@bloomberg.net. Maher Chmaytelli of Benghazi at mchmaytelli@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew j. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net
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