Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's transitional government picked an engineering professor and longtime exile as its acting prime minister Monday, with the new leader pledging to respect human rights and international law. 

The National Transitional Council elected Abdurrahim El-Keib, an electrical engineer who has held teaching posts at the University of Alabama and Abu Dhabi's Petroleum Institute, to the post with the support of 26 of the 51 members who voted. El-Keib emerged victorious from a field that initially included 10 candidates. 

"This is a new Libya," El-Keib told reporters. "It's been 42 years with our friends and people all around the world dealing with a brutal dictator, so concerns are in order, but I want to tell you there should be none of those. 

"We expect the world to understand that we have national interests as well, and we expect them to respect this," he said. "In fact, we demand respect of our national rights and national interests. In return, we promise respect and dealing according to international law." 

But in response to questions about allegations of human rights abuses by the revolutionary forces that toppled longtime strongman Moammar GGadhafi, El-Keib said Libyans needed time to sort things out. 

"I also need to remind myself that the Libyan revolution ended just recently in Bani Walid, Sirte, and in Tripoli only about two months ago," he said. "We beg you , the media, to give us the opportunity and the time to think through all the issues that have been raised by yourself as well as other Arab media. But we guarantee you that we are after building a nation that respects human rights and that does not permit abuse of human rights, but we need time." 
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Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's transitional government picked an engineering professor and longtime exile as its acting prime minister Monday, with the new leader pledging to respect human rights and international law. 
Abdurrahim El-Keib
The National Transitional Council elected Abdurrahim El-Keib, 
the University of Alabama and Abu Dhabi's Petroleum Institute
the University of Alabama and Abu Dhabi's Petroleum Institute
o the post with the support of 26 of the 51 members who voted.
o the post with the support of 26 of the 51 members who voted.
42 years
"It's been 42 years with our friends and people all around the world dealing with a brutal dictator
national rights and interests
In fact, we demand respect of our national rights and national interests. 
Gadhafi
longtime strongman Moammar GGadhafi, 
Bani Walid and Sirte
"I also need to remind myself that the Libyan revolution ended just recently in Bani Walid, Sirte, and in Tripoli
about two months ago
"I also need to remind myself that the Libyan revolution ended just recently in Bani Walid, Sirte, and in Tripoli only about two months ago,"
human rights
. But we guarantee you that we are after building a nation that respects human rights and that does not permit abuse of human rights, but we need time."