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Game over for the African road map to cease-fire in Libya
“The initiative presented today is outdated. The people demand the departure of Muammar Gaddafi and his sons, ” said the head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Moustapha Abdeljalil. “Any initiative that does not take account of this request is not worthy of consideration. Gaddafi and his sons must leave immediately if they want to save their lives, he added. The NTC has received a delegation of African presidents mandated by the AU to advocate a cease-fire as part of a “roadmap” accepted on Sunday by Gaddafi.
This “road map” was calling for an immediate cease fire and hostilities, a humanitarian aid delivery and dialogue for a transition, but not the immediate departure of Colonel Gaddafi, in power for over 40 years and facing, since mid-February a rebellion. African presidents Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali), Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (Mauritania), Denis Sassou Nguesso (Congo) and Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem, have left Libya, on Monday and were expected in the evening in Algiers.
The European Union has supported the “efforts of the AU to find a political solution to the Libyan civil war, warning against the risk of a prolonged crisis to become another Al-Qaeda nest. The NATO has also released its readiness to a cease-fire if it concludes on political reforms. But this possible cease-fire must be “credible and verifiable”, said Secretary General of the Alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, recalling that Tripoli had already announced several cease-fire attempts without respecting them.