Ms. Barbara Martin at the National Defence Committee

On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2011 / 10:10 a.m.

Director General, Middle East and Maghreb Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

I'm not aware of a model on which they're basing it, so I can't comment on that.

On the $2.2 billion, the assets are available to the NTC for their direction. They will go into the transitional financial mechanism. The constraints imposed on the use of those funds were imposed by the UN Security Council sanctions committee, which permitted us to release the funds. Those are the mechanisms that are looking after those funds.

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