Libyan rebels say ready for conditional ceasefire

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya's opposition is ready for a ceasefire provided Moamer Gathafi's forces end their assaults on

Wants freedom of expression, end of besieging cities

UN mediation for possible ceasefire between Libyan rebel fighters, forces loyal to Gathafi.

 

 

 rebel-held cities, Transitional National Council leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said Friday.

"We agree on a ceasefire on the condition that our brothers in the western cities have freedom of expression and also that the forces that are besieging the cities withdraw," Jalil told reporters after meeting Abdul Ilah Khatib, the UN special envoy to Libya.

Khatib said the subject of a possible ceasefire between rebel fighters and forces loyal to embattled Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi had been broached during the discussions with the rebels leaders.

"Our main goal is to achieve a last ceasefire that will hold," he said live on Al-Jazeera satellite channel.

Western powers are increasingly looking for a political rather than a military end to conflict in Libya, which erupted when pro-democracy protests were first launched in Benghazi, about 1000 kilometres (600 miles) east of Tripoli, on February 15.

Germany Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Beijing on Friday the situation in Libya could not be solved through "military means" and called for a ceasefire.

 

 

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