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Libya's oil minister flees country; production at standstill

05/23/2011
Eric WatkinsOil Diplomacy EditorLibya's Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem is reported to have fled the country, becoming one of the highest profile figures to abandon the government of Moammar Gadhafi since fighting erupted in February."All…we know is that Shukri Ghanem is in Tunisia," said a spokesman for the Libyan opposition's Interim National Council (INC) in response to reports by Tunisian security officials and others that the oil minister had fled.INC Finance and Oil Minister Ali Tarhouni, who hopes to represent Libya at a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in June, said he understood that Ghanem had left his post.Ghanem, who also served as h...
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