The United State’s secretary of state will meet the Libyan opposition during a tour of Egypt and Tunisia next week. This decision is a wink to the rebel government of Benghazi, which has already been recognized by France.
“We are reaching out to the opposition inside and outside of Libya. Next week I will travel to Cairo and Tunis to speak directly to the Tunisian and the Egyptian people,” added Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s statement is framed in a series of diplomatic decisions that move to align the West with the Libyan rebels that are fighting against Moammar Gadhafi’s army, and who now have the support of European nations.
France was the first country to recognize the authority of the newly created National Council after a meeting with delegates from the organization in Paris. French representatives assured the Council they will send an ambassador to their headquarters in Benghazi, the city that acts as the provisional capital of rebel Libya.
Portugal, too, gave signs of a willingness to open dialogue with the Council, after communicating to one of Gadhafi’s emissaries that his regime “is over,” according to the leader of Portuguese diplomacy, Luis Amado.
Hillary Clinton did not specify who her interlocutors will be during her tour of northern Africa next week.
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