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Libyan opposition leader meets French president

14 May 2011 17:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has met with Libya’s opposition leader amid questions about the death of a French military contractor in a Libyan rebel stronghold, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com website.
The meeting in Paris on Saturday came the day after Mahmoud Jibril, top representative of the Libyan Transitional National Council, met with U.S. officials in Washington.
Jibril did not speak to reporters on his way out of the meeting with Sarkozy.
France has been a major backer of the rebels, and France has played a leading role in the NATO campaign of airstrikes against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
The director of a French military contracting company was killed this week in rebel-controlled Benghazi, hours before he was supposed to meet with Jibril’s transitional government.