16 August 2011
Tunis - United Nations Special Envoy to Libya Abdul Ilah Al Khatib said on Tuesday he is ready to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi "if there is a horizon for ending the bloodbath and achieving the legitimate, internationally-backed demands of the Libyan people." Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister, told reporters after meeting Tunisian Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Kafi that he had meetings in Tunis with a representative of the rebel National Transitional Council and an envoy of Mouammer Gaddafi's government, but held no official negotiations with the two men.
He said he was in Tunis for consultation with the leadership in the North African country, which had offered facilities to people fleeing the war in Libya and secured humanitarian aid to them as it had a stake in the stability of its neighbour.
Khatib, a special envoy of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said the United Nations and the international community were exerting efforts to reach a political settlement in Libya, voicing the hope to find a way out of the crisis with minimum losses and suffering of the Libyan people.
Tunis - United Nations Special Envoy to Libya Abdul Ilah Al Khatib said on Tuesday he is ready to travel to Tripoli and Benghazi "if there is a horizon for ending the bloodbath and achieving the legitimate, internationally-backed demands of the Libyan people." Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister, told reporters after meeting Tunisian Foreign Minister Mohammed Al Kafi that he had meetings in Tunis with a representative of the rebel National Transitional Council and an envoy of Mouammer Gaddafi's government, but held no official negotiations with the two men.
He said he was in Tunis for consultation with the leadership in the North African country, which had offered facilities to people fleeing the war in Libya and secured humanitarian aid to them as it had a stake in the stability of its neighbour.
Khatib, a special envoy of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said the United Nations and the international community were exerting efforts to reach a political settlement in Libya, voicing the hope to find a way out of the crisis with minimum losses and suffering of the Libyan people.
© Jordan News Agency - Petra 2011
