Libyan opposition's treasury nearly empty

 The Libyan opposition's economic and oil representative said Sunday the rebel is operating out of money to fund its war economic climate and some friend nations have not realized the urgency from the predicament.

Ali Tarhouni, who is in charge of the finance for the opposition's National Transitional Council, said locating sources of revenue is actually a hard challenge while he believes the opposition would lastly win.

"I do not have any resources. Not a single dinar came in for the treasury on Sunday," the former economics lecturer in the University of Washington told a press conference, adding "we only exported one particular shipment (of oil) and got 150 million U.S. dollars for that. So far we've spent 408 million dollars on fuel. It really is not a great range."

He told Xinhua that the leading priority of his job now is usually to support the besieged areas plus the refugees in Tunisia. Nevertheless, the oil export, which was expected to become a significant supply of revenue, wouldn't be resumed till the safety of the oil fields is ensured.

In a complaint that lots of countries that pledged aids essentially don't realize the urgency with the predicament, Tarhouni mentioned, "we are besieged. Folks are dying each day. I'm not positive that this very simple straight message is even reaching our pals."

But he singled out Qatar and Kuwait, saying he appreciated the aid from the Gulf pals and is expecting additional help from them.

Asked regardless of whether the donated dollars will be employed to spent on armament, Tarhouni stated the mechanism has safety measures and transparency to make positive the assets will be used to buy fuel, food and medicine, not arms, "although I wish we have the dollars to purchase arms."

Tarhouni has not long ago returned towards the opposition bastion Benghazi from a trip to Europe plus the Usa looking for economic aids.

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