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Gaddafi negotiates his departure in secret
[Ennahar] The French magazine "La Belle France Soir" reported in its online edition yesterday that Qadaffy would be willing to cede power with the condition he remains in Libya. The magazine said the Libyan leader spends his time consulting Internet and would be unable to move.The magazine quoting "Le Canard Enchaîné", according to which Qadaffy is "hunted by 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... aircraft, could find refuge in Serbia. Belgrade would indeed be volunteered to host the Libyan dictator. This is what revealed "Le Canard enchaîné" to appear Wednesday. While air strikes are continuing, Western envoys (French, British, Americans and Germans) have contacted personalities close to former President Muammar Qadaffy, including Moussa Koussa, a former intelligence chief and Minister of Libyan Foreign, now a refugee in Perfidious Albion. He would be instructed to send a message to Libyan leader's son Saif al-Islam, promising immunity to the entire family in return for a permanent exile. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU), meeting Wednesday in special mini-summit in Addis Ababa, trying again to make its voice heard in the Libyan conflict, its previous calls for a cease-fire and a political solution being kept dead letter. A dozen African heads of state and the UN Secretary General  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon were to meet late afternoon at a special mini-summit, following a meeting of "ad hoc" AU on the Libyan crisis chaired by Mauritanian Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.This mini-summit, to be completed Thursday, opens on the eve of a G8 in Deauville, where Libya is also a central concern of key world leaders. At the same time, South African President Jacob Zuma has announced that he would travel from Pretoria on Monday to Libya to discuss with Colonel Muammar Qadaffy ... dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyaor Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule... , "as a member of the High Level Panel of the African Union to resolve Libyan conflict. "The aim is to discuss an exit strategy for Muammar Qadaffy," told AFP an anonymous source within the South African presidency. In Addis, the chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping for his part said to be "convinced that only a political solution can bring lasting peace and meet the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people to a destiny chosen in freedom, democracy and the rule of law." "In this regard, the roadmap of the AU provides all the elements of such a solution. It is further necessary that we be given the opportunity to implement it," he added. The AU has shown itself hostile to any external military intervention in Libya at the beginning of the armed rebellion in mid-February. The organization is engaged in a delicate mediation to make accepted by the Libyan protagonists a "roadmap" setting out a cease-fire as soon as possible, a humanitarian aid delivery and the establishment of a period of transition and dialogue leading to democratic elections. The regime of Muammar Qadaffy has quickly accepted the proposals of the AU, but the National Council of Transition (CNT), on behalf of the rebels demanded first departure of Colonel Qadaffy and his sons. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-26 |
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