By Reem Tombokti.
Tripoli, 25 March 2013:
The Deputy President of . . .[restrict]the GNC, Juma Ateega, is in South Africa to attend the fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit. According to the Libyan news agency LANA, Ateega and a delegation accompanying him arrived there this morning, Monday.
The summit, taking place in the South African city of Durban from 26 to 27 March, will discuss political and business cooperation between BRICS countries and a number of other states. Ateega was invited to attend by South African president Jacob Zuma.
The BRICS countries were widely seen as having been supporters of the Qaddafi regime during the revolution. Brazil, Russia, India and China (along with Germany) abstained in the UN Security Council vote on 17 March 2011 on Resolution 1973 establishing a no-fly zone and the use all means necessary, short of forces on the ground, to protect Libyan civilians from the Qaddafi regime’s attempt to crush the revolution.
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