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| Zeidan and ministers fly to Misrata |
| 2013-11-20 |
| [Libya Herald] Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appears to have cut short a high-level meeting in Misrata this evening, after angry revolutionary fighters arrived yelling for him to go. He had flown into the city accompanied by seven of his senior ministers; for economy, justice, telecommunications, labour, culture and electricity. The last, Ali Muhairiq is head of the commission that has been given the job of enforcing Law 27, which obliges all armed militias to quit Libyan cities. The government party had come to meet local elders and members of the Shura, as well as Misrata councillors in an apparent effort to ensure that the three-day withdrawal of the city's brigades from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... continues successfully. The meeting had lasted for some 20 minutes with journalists present, before all observers were asked to leave and it went into private session. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... very shortly afterwards, angry fighters arrived outside demanding that city leaders cut no deals with the government and that Zeidan and his party leave. After about ten minutes of what one journalist described as "chaos", the prime minister and his team withdrew. Some Misratans said that Zeidan's arrival by plane had been unexpected, yet the Libya Herald learnt this afternoon that the trip was likely to take place. |
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