Libya's Ambassador to France resigned, Posted by Meosha Eaton

PARIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Libya's ambassador to France and another diplomat from Tripoli resigned on Friday, a Libyan official said.

"I confirm it..they back the people," an official from Libya's offices at the headquarters of the Paris-based U.N. agency UNESCO told Reuters, asking not to be identified.

The official said Tripoli's ambassador to France, Mohamed Salaheddine Zarem, and its ambassador to UNESCO, Abdoulsalam El Qallali, had quit. (Reporting by John Irish)

France wants inquiry team dispatched to Libya, Posted by Meosha Eaton

PARIS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it wanted a U.N.-backed inquiry team sent into Libya to probe possible crimes against humanity.

"We want an independent, impartial and credible inquiry team sent to Libya under the auspices of the United Nations," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said. "This mission would be able to measure the scale of crimes committed and notably whether crimes against humanity occurred," he said. (Reporting by John Irish; editing by Brian Love and Jon Boyle)