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15.09.11

Al Qathafi calls on the UN to take care of Sirte, Sarkozy to become the first leader to visit Tripoli

(Al Arabiya) - Ousted Libyan Muammar Al Qathafi principal called the Security Council of the UN to protect his home town of Sirte - still held by the forces dedicated to him - what he called NATO " atrocities."

"If Sirte is isolated from the rest of the world in a clean place for the atrocities being committed against it, then the world has a duty not to be absent and you have to take your international responsibilities and move immediately to stop this crime, "Reuters quoted Al Qathafi as saying in a statement read on television on Syrian Alrai. Television, said the letter was addressed to the Council of the UN guards.

According Alarabiya corresponding forces were on Al Qathafi citizens roll great in the deposed leader's hometown of Sirte.

Al Qathafi fate is not known but he communicated by Alrai TV several times since he was overthrown on August 23.

But according to the spokesman of Al Qathafi, Moussa Ibrahim, the strong man is still in Libya and his spirits are "very high" and its army is "strong."

He added that the fight is far from over and the forces of Al Qathafi have thousands of friendly volunteers to fight.

Despite the rebels gain ground remarkable, especially, the device Rouge Valley, near Sirte, the spokesman said that Al Qathafi forces still control large chunks of the North African territory, such as the north coast and the western region . He said Al Qathafi forces authority throughout the south.

Nicolas Sarkozy visit

The head of Libya to the Transitional National Assembly confirmed that French President Nicolas Sarkozy will visit Tripoli between leaders Thursday.

Mustafa Abdul Jalil confirmed to AFP that Mr Sarkozy would stay, and added that "we say to the leaders of tomorrow to come they will be safe."

However, the head of NTC makes no reference to British Prime Missionary David Cameron, who was said earlier sources also had to go to the main Libyan Thursday.

But later in the day, an official organ of Libya said Cameron will sign with Sarkozy to visit Tripoli.

U.S. shows support

Washington respects the auspicious of Libyans to decide their own future, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday in Tripoli, the mixture of Africa pushed for an inclusive government after the ouster of Al Qathafi.

"The United States respects the sovereignty of Libya", AFP reported Jeffrey Feltman, the highest ranking official of the United States to visit the Libyan leader since his capture by the forces of Al Qathafi August 23 , as saying.

"A guideline of our partnership with the Libyan people will always obey the independence of Libya and sovereignty," the assistant secretary of state for business practitioner is told a news conference.

"This is a victory for the Libyan people and a lot of Libya should be decided only by the Libyans," he said after his meeting with Abdul Jalil.

Its impact came as a high-level team of the African Union, which refused to recognize the CTN, began to strike means to push for an inclusive government of Libya at a rally in Pretoria, South Africa .

Resolution Outline

Britain circulated a draft resolution that would ease the UN sanctions against Libya to the Board for the Protection and hopes to vote on this week, diplomats said Wednesday.

The prospectus of the Council would begin six months up punitive measures imposed on Libya in its former chairlady supervise a crackdown against the pro-democracy demonstrators around the country.

Under the proposed solution, obtained by Reuters, the resolution asks the Council to 15 nations to ease sanctions against Libya Oil Corp. People and the central bank to allow these two key institutions to start functioning.

The framework would counsel states "its determination to ensure that the assets frozen under (UN resolutions and sanctions) is as long as possible, be made available to and benefit the people of Libya."

The National Oil Corp. would become honest sanctions, which should allow the oil producer in OPEC to begin to export more easily once the basic resolution is approved. But some of the other companies on the sanctions remain in place.

Important assets of the bank, the Libyan Foreign Bank, the Libyan Investment Authority and the Libyan Investment Portfolio Africa that have been frozen so far by UN Member States must remain frozen for the moment, unless they were exempted from the ban by the Council Sanctions Committee.

These assets, as the project can not be released to the component of a decision of Libya sanctions committee of the Security Council, including a senior diplomat said Trust Board has already thawed $ 16 billion in Libyan assets pass.

The Council diplomat described the relaxation as a "gradual lifting or controlled asset freeze." Speaking on condition of anonymity, added that Britain, the editor of the resolution, hopes to make a vote by Friday.

"Follow in the last southern Libya" Al Qathafi

Aljazeera.net) - Muammar Al Qathafi may have left the city of Bani Walid Libyan desert and headed further south with the balm of tribes loyal to Chad and Niger, Reuters news agency quoted a military official over the new direction of Libya as saying.

Hisham Buhagiar, who coordinates the efforts of the Citizen transitional Council to find the former Libyan leader, said reports indicated it may have been in the sphere of village in southern Ghwat, about 950 km south of Tripoli and 300 km north of the Niger with, three days ago.

"It is out of Bani Walid, I think.The latest headlines, it was borderline Ghwat. People saw the cars going in that direction .... We have many sources that he tries to go further south, to Chad and Niger, "Buhagiar said in a talk Tuesday night.

Al Qathafi, which was removed from power in August after a coup against his regime in February to extend to capital Tripoli, is considered traveling in a convoy of about 10 cars and maybe using a tent for shelter, Buhagiar said.

"This is the tent. We qualified in that it does not stay in a house, so he stays in a tent.People say that the cars came, then they have a tent, "he said, adding that his sources had not seen Al Qathafi themselves.

Convoy between Niger

Earlier Tuesday, military sources in France and Niger, told Reuters that dozens of vehicles in the Libyan army has recently crossed the border leaves flat with Niger, in what may be an offer to Al Qathafi to seek refuge in a user-friendly Africa.

Al Qathafi has long touted his tribe, the roots of the desert, and even received foreign dignitaries in a tent.He also presented as an African leader and boosted its influence in Africa through loans, grants and sensitive contacts.

The United States said it believed the convoy carrying the older members of the entourage of al Qathafi and urged Niger to hold anyone liable to prosecution for alleged crimes committed during the uprising against the deposed president Libya.

Leon Panetta, the U.S. Secretary of warrants, said Al Qathafi was "in flight", but Washington said it had no reason to believe the transitional leader had left Libya, something his spokesman Ibrahim Moussa confirmed.

"It is in Libya.It is permissible, it is very healthy in a high morale, "he told Reuters by telephone from the hands undisclosed get one.

The convoy consisted of officers of battalions of the Libyan army in the south and pro-Al Qathafi Tuareg fighters and is prone to cross Libya before going to Algeria to Niger, sources said.

Abdou Labo, Niger's women of the cloth from the inside, however, denied that a convoy had entered Libya in his country. But he confirmed that Niger had claimed asylum at Al Qathafi internal security chief Mansoor Abdullah on humanitarian grounds.

Al Jazeera's James Bay, reports from Tripoli, said the intelligence about the specifics of the convoy were contradictory, but it was certain that a convoy had crossed.

"What is important is that none of the reports we have heard so far says nothing about observation and his son Al Qathafi in the convoy."

A French military authorities said he had told the commander of southern Libya, General Ali Khan, can also be in Niger, not far from the filling of Libya.

He said he was told that Al and his son Seif Qathafi Khana and join the convoy to catch up, they prefer to accept the offer of Burkina Faso in exile.

Burkina Faso, an heir of the former large amounts of aid from Libya, would have provided Al Qathafi exile two weeks ago, but also recognized the NTC superintendent of Libya.

Tuesday, however, the Government of Burkina Faso said that he had not received a request to expel Al Qathafi and ousted leader was not in the West African state.

"Al Qathafi not in Burkina Faso and we have not been approached for any request for expatriates. Burkina (Faso) was not informed of the arrival of Al Qathafi. We do not expect", Alain Edouard Traore, Church communications, told public television.

Discount talks fail

Also on Tuesday, NTC fighters were preparing for an attack coming on Bani Walid as the efforts for a peaceful resolution to a standoff with the loyalists Qathafi Al seem to have failed.

During lengthy negotiations, the NTC has sought to bring together representatives of Bani Walid, approximately 150 km southeast of Tripoli city, there would be no retribution if the village went peacefully.

Source: Tripoli Post