"I vowed that if my initiative did not succeed, I would resign and I have done so, " Mr Jebali told a news conference after meeting President Moncef Marzouki.

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"I would never resign from Penn State University, " he said.

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The only other option was to claim nothing at all but then I would have had to resign because I could not afford to live half my life in London or Cumbria without an allowance for one of them.

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He's acting and listening to cases and making judgments of others, and we know that he authorized things that were illegal under U.S. law and violated the U.S. obligations under international treaties, and you know, I think that if he would do the right thing, he should just simply resign.

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