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Qaddafi accepts peace roadmap: Zuma
[Arab News] Muammar Qadaffy has accepted a roadmap for ending the civil war in Libya, South African President Jacob Zuma said after leading a delegation of African leaders at talks in Tripoli.
They aren't the ones at war with the colonel, and France isn't likely to be impressed.
Zuma, who with four other African heads of state met Qadaffy for several hours at the Libyan leader's Bab Al-Aziziyah compound, also called on NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
to stop air strikes on Libyan government targets to "give cease-fire a chance."

No one at the talks gave details of the roadmap for peace in this oil-producing nation. Rebels have said they will accept nothing less than an end to Qadaffy's four decades in power, but Libyan officials say he will not quit.

"The brother leader delegation has accepted the roadmap as presented by us. We have to give cease-fire a chance," Zuma said, adding that the African delegation would now travel to the eastern city of Benghazi for talks with anti-Qadaffy rebels.

NATO stepped up attacks on Qadaffy's armor on Sunday to weaken the bitter siege of Misrata in the west and disrupt a dangerous advance by Qadaffy's troops in the east.

The alliance said it destroyed 11 tanks on the outskirts of the eastern rebel town of Ajdabiyah, which looked in danger of being overrun on Sunday, and 14 near Misrata, a lone cut-thoat bastion in the west that has been under siege for six weeks.

There was no sign of any let-up in the fighting and despite the African leaders' peace roadmap hopes of a negotiated settlement looked slim.

A rebel front man rejected a deal with Qadaffy to end the conflict, bloodiest in a series of pro-democracy revolts across the Arab world that have ousted the autocratic leaders of Tunisia and Egypt.

"There is no other solution than the military solution, because this dictator's language is annihilation, and people who speak this language only understand this language," front man Ahmad Bani told al Jazeera television.
Posted by: Fred 2011-04-11
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