April 1, 2011 (Scooped news)
Gaddafi’s deployed ambassador to UN says he would not serve Gaddafi regime any more. News of more defection from the “inner circle” of the Gaddafi have been surfacing and increasing with the time.
There are unconfirmed reports that more people have left the so called “ Inner Circle” of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, after the defection of high Musa Kusa, Foreign Minister of Libya, who arrived in the UK on Wednesday.
It is understood a group of senior officials who had gone to Tunis for talks decided to stay.
Arab newspapers said Mohammad Abu Al Qassim Al Zaoui, head of the People’s Committee of Libya, the country’s equivalent of a parliament, are among the defectors, reports of other defections, such as petroleum officer Shokri Ghanem, have not been confirmed.
Shokri, made a statement on Thursday to ban his defection, told Reuters he had spoken to them from his office.
Nazanin Moshiri, Al Jazeera correspondent in Tunis, said that Abu Zayed Dordah, Libyan Prime Minister, 1990-1994, was also mentioned as high-profile defections.
On Thursday, another senior official confirmed that he would not serve the regime Gaddfai.
Treki Abdessalam Ali, a former foreign minister and chairman of the UN General Assembly, was appointed to represent Libya to the UN after a wave of defections from the top of the insurgency.
Treki, currently in Cairo, said in a statement posted on several sites that opposition will not accept this job or something else.
Gaddafi has struck the same defiant, saying that he did not, it should go – it is the Western leaders who have destroyed his army’s air strikes that would have to resign immediately.
The message of the Libyan leader, on Thursday, has been weakened by his performance – a scroll at the bottom of the state television that was left out of sight, and he accused the country’s leaders to attack his forces to “untouched by the madness of power”.
"Decay from within"
William Hague, British Foreign Secretary, said Koussi had not been offered immunity from prosecution and has "voluntarily speaks of" authority.
Koussi was in a safe place and are currently involved in discussions with British diplomats, including some who worked at the embassy in Libya now from the Persian, in The Hague said.
"His resignation [of kousa] shows that the regime [Muammar] Gaddafi … is fragmented and crumbling under pressure from within," he said.
The Hague, Kousser said he was in contact with the regime in recent weeks and had spoken with him several times.
A spokesman for the Libyan government confirmed Thursday that Koussa resigned, but said that Gaddafi always enjoyed the support of his people.
Ibrahim Moussa said that the decision was personal and Koussa "other people step in and do the job."
Ibrahim said Koussa had been allowed to go to Tunisia because he was sick with diabetes and hypertension.
"Tight Security"
Many of the Libyan government figures have resigned after the rebellion began Feb. 15 .
Interior Minister Abdel Fattah Younis and Justice Minister Mohammed Mustafa al-Jalil both left, along with ambassadors from around the world many.
Most senior officials of Libya is trying to jump, but under tight security and has difficulty leaving the country, a senior Libyan diplomat now supports the opposition said Thursday.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya’s deputy ambassador to the UN, said that the Mission of Libya to the UN, which is now fully supporting the opposition has had two days notice that default under Koussa, Wednesday .
He said the mission had been waiting for about 10 days of the fall Thursday in Treki Abdessalam Ali, a former foreign minister chosen by Gaddafi to the new UN ambassador.
"We know that most of the high Libyan authorities are trying to defect, but most of them are under strict security measures and may not leave the country," said Dabbashi.
"But we are sure that many of them benefit from the first chance outside the country and evil."
"Independent State"
Before leaving Koussa said the government of Nicaragua, he sent a letter on the appointment of Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, a former priest who served as foreign minister of Nicaragua first time after the Sandinista revolution of 1979, Libya’s new ambassador to the UN.
A press conference with D’Escoto, provided by the UN mission in Nicaragua, has been postponed from Thursday to Friday, then postponed again, no date announced later. The mission offered no explanation for the delay.
Farhan Haq, UN spokesman, said the UN had not formally received a letter from the change in Libya in terms of credentials that D’Escoto.
He said that the UN has received a copy of the Memorandum of Nicaragua will respond to UN missions, which are accompanied by a copy of the letter of the Secretary-General Koussi, but stressed that the UN had never received the letter.
Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on Wednesday that D’Escoto need for G-1 visa, a visa is required of the United States diplomatic mission, if he wants to represent Libya.
Lockerbie questions
Scottish authorities announced Thursday they wanted to interview Koussi over 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
"We have informed the Foreign Office and Commonwealth Office to the Scottish authorities continued to investigate and not to a question from Mr. Kousser in connection with the Lockerbie bombing," said the Crown Office in Scotland in a statement.
"The search for Lockerbie bombing remains open, and we will continue with all relevant lines of inquiry."
Bombardment on the Scottish town in 1988 killed 259 people, mostly Americans, for the machine and in 11 countries.
Last month, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, former Minister of Justice and leader of the rebel NPRC Libya, Gaddafi said he had ordered intelligence officers, including the convicted terrorist Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to the bombing.