ROME, (Reuters) – Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands have joined Italy and France in recognising the Transitional National Council of rebels fighting to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said today.
Mahmoud Shammam told reporters at a meeting of an international anti-Gaddafi coalition that the cash-strapped rebels only had enough funds to pay for their immediate needs in food, public salaries and medicine until the end of May.
They needed $2-3 billion dollars in urgent funding, he said.
“There are three more countries that have recognised us this morning, Holland, Denmark and Spain. And there will be possibly more after the meeting,” Shammam said. Meeting hosts Italy earlier appealed for more members of the NATO-led coalition to recognise the Benghazi-based rebels.