Tabu and Taurg representatives suspend their memberships in Constitution Drafting Assembly.

Tripoli, 20.08.2015(Lana) Representatives of the Taurag and Tabu in the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) have suspended their membership of the assembly declaring their rejection of whatever is produced be they drafts or proposals. In a joint statement Thursday, the representatives of the two components in the CDA underscored that the decision to suspend their membership came of what they considered the CDA non-commitment to the consensual approach regarding the original components of the country as defined in the Constitutional Declaration by exclusion of Taurg and Tabu from the working committee. According to the statement, it considered the majority approach and denials breach of the Constitutional Declaration and a diversion from the bases of democratic and mulit-cultural state building. The statement called on all components and the international community to oblige the CDA to respect the Constitutional Declaration which necessities consensus with Taurg, Tabu and Amazigh and CDA respect its pledges by laying down consensual constitution that responds to the aspirations of all Libyans. The CDA should comprise 60 members, however the Amazigh have boycotted it after refusing to pass articles related to the cultural and linguistic issues of non-Arab components of Libyan society through consensus. =Lana=