The spokesman, Ahmed Bani, even questioned the authority of the rebel minister of finance, Ali Tahouni, who seemed to offer a conflicting account at another news conference.
The head of the Transitional National Council first said he had been assassinated by pro Qadaffi loyalists, but a rebel minister, Ali Tarhouni, later said that another rebel leader had confessed that his men, who had been sent to bring Younes to Benghazi, had killed him.
This spring, President Gbagbo, under pressure from France, agreed to include rebel ministers in a new cabinet.
The rebel "ministers" reportedly discussed a "partial agreement" reached in secret talks with France during the past three months and gave instructions to their negotiators for continuing the talks.
France's prime minister is scrambling to put together a new pro-reform government, a day after the surprise eviction of rebel ministers who had opposed budgetary rigour.
The country's new unity government held its first cabinet meeting with newly sworn-in rebel ministers, even as the rebels accused the government of new attacks in the western region.
But he and his fellow rebel ministers refuse to take up their posts in Abidjan, where most government business takes place, unless they can bring their own security, in the shape of 30 bodyguards each.Many southerners, meanwhile, are furious that the rebels are to be given a slice of power.
"He is unable to stand up to rebel ministers opposed to HS2 and unwilling to vote in favour of his own government's biggest infrastructure project".
A spokesman for the rebels' defense minister has said the minister canceled the summons or arrest warrant for the general, and the group of soldiers who delivered it acted in error.
