Libyan rebels need to flesh out their plans for post-Qadhafi rule and convince members of the current Libyan administration that they could work together, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday.
Speaking on his return from rebel-held Benghazi, Hague said he was confident that the rebels' desire for democracy was genuine but conceded their blueprint was "embryonic". "We're encouraging the National Transitional Council to put more flesh on their proposed transition - to lay out in more detail this coming week what would happen on the day that Qadhafi went - who would be running what, how would a new government be formed in Tripoli?" Hague told the BBC.
He said lessons had been learned from the lawlessness that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the plan put forward by the Transitional Council envisaged technocratic members of Muammar Qadhafi's government working alongside opposition members. "They now need to publicise that more effectively, to be able to convince members of the current regime that that is something that would work," Hague said.