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Your support makes all the difference.The UN Security Council yesterday to lift sanctions on Libya's central bank and a subsidiary, clearing the way for tens of billions of dollars they hold overseas to be unfrozen to ease an acute cash crisis.
The move is a boost for Libya's fragile government, its authority being challenged by a turf war between multitude militias that emerged from the war to end Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, who arrived in Libya this morning from Turkey, is due to meet Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib and Defence Minister Osama Al-Juwali.
Speaking in Ankara yesterday, he acknowledged the challenges ahead.
"Standing back, it seems they are working through some very difficult issues," he told reporters.
"This is not a country that has a history of democratic institutions and representative government. This is going to take some work."
The Security Council froze Libyan assets abroad - estimated at $150 billion (£100bn) - after the rebellion against Gaddafi broke out in February.
The country's interim leaders had repeatedly appealed for the assets to be released, in order to pay the wages of public sector workers and re-build state institutions.
The United States, which took part in the NATO bombing campaign of Libya, followed the Security Council yesterday in unfreezing more than $30 billion £20bn) in Libyan government assets.
REUTERS
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