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                        New Interim PM Selected in Libya

   Libyan lawmakers have selected a new interim prime minister, a week
   after giving a vote of no confidence to their former pick for failing
   to present an acceptable Cabinet.
   Libya's General National Congress on Sunday elected Ali Zidan, a former
   career diplomat who defected in the 1980s and became an outspoken
   critic of former leader Moammar Gadhafi.  He later became a human
   rights advocate.
   Zidan pledged to begin working quickly in a nation that remains highly
   polarized after the 2011 civil war that ended Gadhafi's four-decade
   rule.
   "The interim government will conduct itself with virtue and according
   to the constitutional declaration and will be a government of crisis if
   we are in crisis and will be a government of the people," he said.." It
   will be a government of consensus and, when completed, will be a
   government of action and implementation. The new government will begin
   its work as soon as it is sworn in."
   Zidan also said Sunday that security will be a priority.
   A new Libyan government faces the challenge of trying to disarm and
   demobilize militias that maintain control over parts of the country
   following their participation in the revolution.
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