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Libya: in 2011 there was a secret agreement on the post Gaddafi

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CAIRO. An agreement that envisaged the withdrawal of Muammar Gaddafi from power but the preservation of Libyan state institutions was reached in the spring of 2011 in Norway but then not applied due to the lack of interest in a negotiated solution by France and Great Britain. These “confidential talks with Norwegian mediation” are “revealed exclusively” by the website of the British newspaper Independent, citing “the first interview with an international media” by the then Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Store who brokered the agreement. “The two sides agreed on a draft” in which it was “stated that Muammar Gaddafi, who had ruled Libya for 42 years, would resign and leave politics but the state institutions would remain in place”, summarizes the site . “In the end, however, the talks failed and the rebels, with the support of NATO, captured and killed Gaddafi,” it is recalled. Store “accused France and Great Britain of opposing a negotiated solution,” writes the Independent, referring to British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Gaddafi’s son, Said al-Islam, invited two senior Norwegian officials to the presidential palace in Tripoli to negotiate but were then fled to Tunisia in the run-up to the first bombing of the Atlantic Alliance, it is revealed. Jens Stoltenberg, the current secretary general of NATO and then Norwegian premier, however, asked Store to continue the secret negotiations in Norway: “After weeks of coming and going”, the minister managed to organize “the first face-to-face meeting between senior representatives of the regime and the opposition in a hotel room in Oslo on April 27 “, writes the site, specifying that Mohamed Ismail, right-hand man of Saif al-Islam, was representing the Gaddafi, while Aly Zeidan presented himself for the rebels, who was then one of the premieres of post-Gaddafi Libya (from November 2012 to March 1914) One of the “controversial key points” was the fate of the leader, who refused to leave Libya and, Store argued, the major Western powers were not interested in a negotiated recomposition, insists the Independent.

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