Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qadhafi launched a diplomatic initiative towards some members of the NATO on Sunday, with the Greek Government say that met a senior official of the Libyan with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and, planned to travel on to Turkey.
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Gaddafi regime "Sought a solution,", said Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas, but he has to be no information about the meeting with Foreign Minister Libyan Abdulati al Obeidi. Droutsas added that his Government would inform "all our partners and allies" of the Libyan proposals.
Obama administration officials were waiting to be informed, said that they had no comment on the plans. Obeidi, Libyan Prime Minister, emerged in the last few days as Gaddafi's diplomatic point man.
Many of them arrived in Benghazi the de-facto capital of the Libyan opposition, a Turkish ferry with hundreds of people, wounded fighters, from the Western Misurata, where the rebels were under siege by Gaddafi loyalists.
The ship, under the protection of the Turkish military of fighter jets and naval vessels travel in Benghazi more wounded in Turkey get stopped.
Droutsas said that Obeidi planned by Athens in the Turkey for meetings with government officials, and then to Malta travel according to a report by the official news agency of Athens. The meeting with Papandreou, who said Greek officials had a phone call from Tripoli on Friday was ordered.
"On our part," Droutsas said in a statement, "we stressed that we confirmed the clear message of the international community: full compliance with and implementation of UN resolutions, immediate ceasefire, end violence and hostilities, particularly against civilians in Libya." "Emissary words, it seems based on the that the regime also [] is looking for a solution."
Obeidi told reporters in Tripoli on Friday, "We seek British, the French and the Americans with the, the killing of people to stop talking." "We try to find a mutual solution."
Many Libyan officials are allegedly in contact with Western officials, although it remains unclear which seek to leave the Government among them and, represent you. Libyan Foreign Minister Musa KUSA übergelaufen last week after United Kingdom and a close advisor of Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, met with British officials reported proposal of the Libyan leader makes his sons step down.
The Obama showed little interest in such offered administration and its allies and partners in the Libya operation. President Obama described his demand of the international military coalition, under the authorization of the United Nations after Gaddafi's departure as a political goal, during goal, is to stop the violence and to protect Libyan civilians.
Although NATO command of which last week took over operation Libya, some members have said that they would participate only in the noncombat aspects of the intervention.
US officials will remain with opposition groups, who hold the eastern part of the country, air strikes and a no-fly zone under the protection of the Coalition the possibility of a military confrontation on the ground, increasingly resigned during Gaddafi's forces in the control of the West.
The United States and its partners in the operations remain nervous about armament of the disorganized rebel fighters. Although officials expressed confidence in the collection of lawyers and intellectuals, who have formed an interim Government in Benghazi, they are concerned about the identity and objectives of other participants in the fight.
Gaddafi's far bigger and better thwarts last week Western move forces rebel attempts and suppressed by cities, which had taken on the Central Mediterranean Sea.
In Misurata, the only major city in western Libya in rebel hands, still weeks of urban warfare have taken a toll for clearly. Passengers on board the Ankara, which saw the arrival in Benghazi from Misurata, ferry subscribed and exhausted.
The passengers, protected by heavily armed Turkish police offered a window into a city, which cut off from the outside world for weeks.
"There is no safe place in Misurata," said Faraj Ahmed, 31, a doctor, the wounded on their trip to Turkey was accompanied. About 70 more wounded people were to be picked up by Benghazi.
The ship came in Misurata of under guise of 10 Turkish air force F-16 fighter aircraft and two navy frigates, Reuters said, adding that thousands of desperate people, including several thousand Egyptians, tried it on board.
"There are bombs everywhere, in homes, in cars," said Ahmed. "The situation is really bad." "There is nothing to eat, no formula for the baby." Electricity was been interrupted, he said. "Even with the air strikes" coalition forces, he said "Gaddafi's people killed people every day are."
Inside the ship was sprinkled every cabin and lounge with injured people. The smell of diesel fuel mixed with the stench of sweat as harried medical personnel crashed through rows of the wounded.
Some of the violations were cruel. A young man sat on a mattress on the floor, a gaping hole where his nose had been. On a different mattress set a man, whose Beine was been amputated. Many said they were civilians and had been sitting in their cars or foot on the road when they were attacked.
deyoungk@WashPost.com
Bahrampour reports of Benghazi.
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