NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama
announced on Tuesday he was sending the U.S. ambassador back to
Tripoli to reopen the embassy there and pledged support for
Libya's transitional government as he called on the last of
Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists to lay down their arms.
"We will stand with you in your struggle to realize the
peace and prosperity that freedom can bring," Obama said in a
message to the Libyan people in prepared remarks for a U.N.
conference on Libya's reconstruction. He was to meet first with
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya's Transitional National
Council (TNC).
(Reporting by Laura MacInnis and Matt Spetalnick; editing by
Philip Barbara)
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