The UN Security Council planned a closed-door meeting later Monday at the request of Tripoli, which accused allied forces of killing civilians during airstrikes aimed Libyan military installations, dpa reported.
The allied forces, including the United States, France, Britain and Canada, were carrying out the UN mandate of no-fly zone over Libya.
The 15-nation council received the request from the Libyan government in Tripoli and not through its mission to the United Nations in New York, where the Libyan ambassador and his deputy were sacked after they denounced the Moamer Gaddafi regime last month.
The former Libyan ambassador, Abdulharam Shalgam and his deputy, Ibrahim Dabbashi, were removed from their posts and still were allowed access inside UN headquarters in New York.
Tripoli replaced Shamgam with Ali Treki, who held the post before and was UN General Assembly president in 2009. But Treki has not yet taken up his post in New York.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to arrive in Tunis after leaving Cairo Monday for a "very important visit with a broad-based section of the Tunisian society."
"He will be on a listening mode," Nesirky said.
News reports said Ban would meet with Treki in Tunis. But Nesirky could not confirm, saying that the UN was also aware of the news reports.
Nesirky said Treki would have to present credentials before assuming the post as the new Libyan envoy to the UN, and the diplomatic act would have to be done in New York and not in Tunis.
Ban's visits to Cairo and Tunis were to gain first-hand information of the changes in those two countries after the people there succeeded in their demands for democratic reforms. dpa tn Author: JT Nguyen 210953 Mär 11 =
New York (dpa) - The UN Security Council planned a closed-door meeting later Monday at the request of Tripoli, which accused allied forces of killing civilians during airstrikes aimed Libyan military installations.
The allied forces, including the United States, France, Britain and Canada, were carrying out the UN mandate of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya.
The 15-nation council received the request from the Libyan government in Tripoli and not through its mission to the United Nations in New York, where the Libyan ambassador and his deputy were sacked after they denounced the Moamer Gaddafi regime last month.
The former Libyan ambassador, Abdulharam Shalgam, and his deputy, Ibrahim Dabbashi, were removed from their posts yet still were allowed access inside UN headquarters in New York.
Tripoli replaced Shamgam with Ali Treki, who held the post before and was UN General Assembly president in 2009. But Treki has not yet taken up his post in New York.
UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was to arrive in Tunis after leaving Cairo Monday for a "very important visit with a broad-based section of the Tunisian society."
"He will be on a listening mode," Nesirky said.
News reports said Ban would meet with Treki in Tunis. But Nesirky could not confirm, saying that the UN was also aware of the news reports.
Nesirky said Treki would have to present credentials before assuming the post as the new Libyan envoy to the UN, and the diplomatic act would have to be done in New York and not in Tunis.
Ban's visits to Cairo and Tunis were to gain first-hand information of the changes in those two countries after the people there succeeded in their demands for democratic reforms.
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