BBC News with Kathy Clugston
Leaders from 63 countries have met the top officials in Libya's National Transitional Council to
map out
a future for the country. Speaking after the conference in Paris, the co-hosts - the British Prime Minister David Cameron and the French President Nicolas Sarkozy - said there was
unanimous
support to continue Nato air strikes for
as long as
Colonel Gaddafi remained a threat. Mr Cameron paid tribute to the conduct of the Libyan opposition.
"Some people warned, as Gaddafi himself did, that the Libyan people could not be trusted with freedom, that without Gaddafi there would be chaos. Some people thought that chaos would start the moment the regime fell. So what we are seeing emerging now in Libya, despite the years of
repression
and the trauma of recent days and months, is
immensely
impressive."
Mr Cameron said all countries had agreed to ask the United Nations for permission to unfreeze all Libyan assets. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the top priority was to provide Libyans with medicine, fuel, food and water. The NTC president Mustafa Abdul Jalil said the people of Libya now had to seek
reconciliation
and forgiveness, and respect the rule of law.
A senior NTC official has told the BBC that tribal leaders in Colonel Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte will be given another week to persuade his troops to surrender. The NTC says that many