Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) - Libyan rebels signed an agreement with Qatar for the marketing of crude oil from areas they control in return for shipments of food and medicine and fuel, said an official of the Libyan opposition in Benghazi, a stronghold of the rebels east of the country, Friday.
Ali Altarhuni in charge of oil and finance in the Transitional National Assembly, the executive body of the Libyan Opposition, "The government of Qatar has given its approval and signed it would sell crude oil to our agenda."
In the framework of the "exchange" aimed to circumvent the international sanctions against Libya, Qatar will sell the oil and will supply the rebels against the proceeds of humanitarian assistance, he said.
He announced that the rebels also hope to be able to buy weapons by oil revenues, "all kinds of weapons that can be found."
He added: "We have a list of weapons we need and trying to get different sources of supply", refusing to name the countries that could sell weapons of the rebels.
And this oil will not come from major oil estuaries in the east such as Ras noses and Brega, and that the rebels did not succeed in continuing their control for long before the attacks by al-Gaddafi, but the gnashing of the remote site to the south-east, which is controlled by the rebels steadily, he said.
The rebels say they can export one million barrels in the week, but they need to ship to move it.
Altarhuni said that "the only delay is in finding ships to transfer ... it's the only obstacle."
He did not want a company spokesman Qatar National Petroleum confirm this agreement.
And the rich Gulf state of Qatar, is the first Arab country to recognize the Transitional National Assembly and participated in international military operation which was launched under a UN mandate on 19 March.
The system was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi warned that he will pursue every company concluded oil agreements with rebels.
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