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WASHINGTON | Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:08pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the international alliance on Libya agreed on Monday that senior diplomats will meet in Istanbul to discuss the next steps for the country, the State Department said.

Clinton spoke by telephone with members of the "contact group" on Libya, which includes key European and Arab allies, and voiced strong support for Libya's rebel Transitional National Council as it plots a course for a democratic transition in Libya, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

"The plan is for the political directors to meet on Thursday," Nuland said, adding that the Istanbul meeting would allow the international alliance to discuss what types of help they may be able to offer the rebels.

"This must be and will be a Libyan-led transition," she said.

(Editing by Eric Beech)
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Skeptic14 wrote:
Congrats to the Int’l Banks and corp. elites! You have 1 more country to enslave in your global debt system! You stopped Ghadaffi from his evil plan of uniting Africa into United States of Africa (with their own gold-backed currency) so that you can keep exploiting vast natural resources of Africa. And I’d be remiss not send a shout-out to the CIA, the private militia of these elites, and the propaganda machine that is western media, without whom none of this would have been possible.

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Greenspan2 wrote:
Leave America out of this before the country does any more harm. Let more responsible parties that give a damn about something other than the American dollar take a leading role.

Aug 22, 2011 6:43pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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