Tripoli, Aug 23 (ANI): Former Croatian President Stipe Mesic who has close ties with Muammar Gaddafi Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has said that the Libyan dictator is ready to step down from political life if NATO ends airstrikes.
"I can confirm that colonel Gaddafi is ready to retreat completely from political and public life with a firm engagement that we would impede the setting up of a multi party system but on the condition that the NATO airstrikes cease," news.com.au quoted Mesic, as saying in a statement.
He also claimed to have had a "personal verbal message" from Gaddafi last week with the offer, and added he told the Chinese, Russian and American ambassadors to Croatia about it on Monday.
"The authorities in Tripoli have tried to get this message out via all the available channels to countries that have played a crucial role in the organisation and the operations in Libya," Mesic added.
Although the rebels have claimed to have gained control of Tripoli, the surprise emergence of Gaddafi's son Saif- al-Islam, who was presumed to have been detained by the rebels, had led to a confusion over the future of that country.
It was reported earlier in the day that Seif walked as a free man to the Gaddafi-controlled luxury Rixos Hotel in the center of Tripoli early Tuesday, boasting to foreign journalists there that his father's government was still "in control".
He also claimed that rebels have been trapped by Gaddafi regime forces. (ANI)
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