Libya's National Transitional Council has said it will respect existing oil contracts, a European Union diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking of meetings with new Libyan officials, the diplomat said: "In general terms, they underlined business continuity. There will not be any action taken on the decisions of the Gadhafi regime."
Libya
's
National Transitional Council has said it will respect existing oil contracts,
a European Union diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking of meetings with new Libyan officials, the diplomat said: "In
general terms, they underlined business continuity. There will not be any
action taken on the decisions of the Gadhafi regime."
For future contracts, the diplomat said,
Libya
will
be open to all bids from any company.
The diplomat also said Libyan NTC officials have said they do not want to be
pushed to fix an election date and want sufficient time. He said they didn't
want to be pegged down to holding an election in eight or 12 months.
Meanwhile, briefing reporters, Agostino Miozzo, the EU's managing director for
crisis response, said he had been impressed by the NPC officials he had met
during a five-day visit to
Tripoli
,
which started August 31st. If the current group of people in charge in
Tripoli
remain the leaders, "we will be in a safe condition," he said.
"People we met are impressive," Miozzo said. "You can trust
these people."
Miozzo said there were signs that the fuel shortages
Tripoli
has
experienced in recent weeks are easing, that people are going back to work and
shops are reopening.
Water supply remains a problem, he said, as does security because of the large
quantity of guns people are still carrying.
The visit left him feeling "positive" about
Libya
's
prospects, adding that the "situation is going back to normality."
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