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| Libya offers truce deal to UN envoy |
| 2011-05-15 |
| Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister has offere a truce to the visiting UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib, in return for an immediate NATO ceasefire, as an anti-regime revolt entered a fourth month. The head of Britain's armed forces, meanwhile, says NATO should widen its bombing campaign to ensure Gaddafi is unable to cling to power, while Pope Benedict XVI has called for negotiations to end the violence. Prime Minister Baghdadi Mahmudi, quoted by JANA state news agency on Sunday, said after meeting Khatib that Libya was keen for "an immediate ceasefire to coincide with a stop to the NATO bombardment and the acceptance of international observers." Advertisement: Story continues below His country, he said, was committed to the unity of its territory and people and Libyans had the right to "decide on their internal affairs and political system through democratic dialogue away from the bombing threat". |
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