Gaddafi regime 'ready for talks' on transition of power to rebels

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Source: The Guardian

Efforts to find a political solution to the Libyan crisis are intensifying as France, Britain and the US acknowledge that Nato military action alone is unlikely to force Muammar Gaddafi to step down.

The UN and western countries are urging formal talks between the Benghazi-based rebels and the Gaddafi regime amid new signs that Tripoli might agree to discuss a transition of power.

Alain Juppé, France's foreign minister, provided the strongest indication yet of optimism about the outcome. "Emissaries are telling us Gaddafi is ready to go, let's talk about it," he said on Tuesday. "The question is no longer about whether Gaddafi goes but when and how."

François Fillon, the French prime minister, told the national assembly that a "political solution is taking shape".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/12/gaddafi-regime-transition-power-rebels

[TheWraith]

1. As long as it's not an excuse to stall for time.

Which I think is what the rest of NATO is worried about. You can have "talks" but if the point is mainly to stop everything in it's tracks and delay, maybe for months or years, it only benefits Ghaddafi.

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2. He's supposed to be arrested.

Unless his jail is a mansion on an island, I don't think he's going anywhere.

[Baclava]

3. What is this, the 5th or 6th time now they said he's leaving?

Who does he think he is, Brett Favre?