French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron will jointly host the meeting of the contact group on Libya next week in Paris. In a statement, both leaders decided after a telephone talk last night to initiate without delay a close cooperation with the legitimate Libyan authorities and their international partners for the organization of a summit of the enlarged contact group on Libya. They both agreed to continue their support for Libya's rebel authority — National Transition Council, as long as Muammar Gaddafi refused to lay down arms. The contact group on Libya was formed at an international ministerial conference in London on March 29th and is composed of European powers, the United States, allies from the Middle East and a number of international organisations.