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By Maria Golovnina
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya including an immediate ceasefire, the African Union said on Monday, but an opposition representative said it would only work if Gaddafi...
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By Maria Golovnina
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:40am EDT
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya including an immediate ceasefire, the African Union said on Monday, but an opposition representative said it would only work if Gaddafi left power.
South African President Jacob Zuma, who met Gaddafi at the head of a delegation of African leaders, urged NATO to stop air strikes on government targets to "give ceasefire a chance."
Earlier truce offers from Gaddafi have come to nothing and the rebels, who took up arms across the east and in some towns in the west after the Libyan leader crushed protests in February, have said they will accept nothing less than an end to his 41 year-old rule.
"The brother leader delegation has accepted the roadmap as presented by us. We have to give ceasefire a chance," Zuma said, adding that the African delegation would now travel to the eastern city of Benghazi for talks with anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Asked if the issue of Gaddafi stepping down was discussed, Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, told reporters: "There was some discussion."
However he added: "I cannot report on confidential discussions because first of all I was not part of them, and I think they have to remain confidential between the parties involved."
Officials from NATO, which stepped up attacks on Gaddafi's armor on Sunday to weaken a bitter siege of Misrata in the west and disrupt an advance by his troops in the east, were not immediately available for comment on Zuma's ceasefire appeal.
The British-based representative of the Libyan opposition leadership, Guma al-Gamaty, said it would look carefully at the AU plan, but would not accept any deal designed to keep Gaddafi or his sons in place, Britain's BBC reported.
Libyan officials have repeatedly said Gaddafi will not quit.
Zuma met Gaddafi for several hours at the Libyan leader's Bab al-Aziziyah compound with four other African heads of state.
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The AU's Lamamra said the proposal included the delivery of humanitarian aid, protection of foreigners, dialogue between all parties and "the establishment of an inclusive transition period with a view to adopting and implementing necessary political reforms."
He said the AU was ready to help with the deployment of a ceasefire monitoring mechanism and could work alongside the United Nations and the Arab League.
Asked if he feared rebels might reject the plan, Lamamra said: "We believe what we have proposed is broad enough to launch negotiations ... What we need is for them to accept that we are people of good will."
"It's not up to any outside force, even the African Union itself, to decide on the behalf of the Libyan people on who the leader of the country should be," Lamamra told a news conference in the early hours of Monday morning after the AU talks.
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Jeanmichel wrote:
I hope the rebels will also accept the roadmap proposed by the African Union delegation led by Zuma and that NATO will stop drpping its bombs and killing the Libyans.
The pilots of NATO are snipers: seated in their airplanes high above in the sky and moving very rapidly, they choose their victims, drop their bombs kill their victims. Like the snipers, their lives are not in danger at all and they just kill and kill. So far they must have killed hundreds of Libyans and injured many more.
Apr 10, 2011 10:31pm EDT -- Report as abuse
RAMFAITORI wrote:
Gaddafi will never step down. He considers Libya as his own property. Everyone still remembers that Gadafi has announced ceasefire three times within four days, and non of all these announcements have been applied.
The only solution for this problem is that rebel fighters have to fight till they bring this regime to an end. Unfortunately there is no choice.
Apr 11, 2011 1:44am EDT -- Report as abuse
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