London: The UK has asked other senior Libyan officials to abandon Col Gaddafi after his foreign minister fled to Britain and resigned.
The Foreign Office said it wanted “those around Gaddafi to abandon him and embrace a better future for Libya”.
The Libyan government said Koussa was travelling on a diplomatic mission.
The development came on the same day as the UK took steps to expel five Libyan diplomats.
Foreign Secretary William Hague told MPs the five, who include the military attache, “could pose a threat” to UK security.
Koussa had flown into Farnborough airport, in Hampshire, on Wednesday afternoon from Tunisia and had been debriefed, most likely by intelligence officials.
He said the fact he had flown into Farnborough was significant as he had clearly not been on a commercial flight. He is believed to have arrived on a British military plane.
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