Tripoli: A peace plan under which Muammar Gaddafi would hand over power and set Libya on course to become a constitutional democracy has been privately floated by his son, sources said.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Colonel’s son, would take control of the country in the interim under plans that he has proposed himself.
The sources said that the idea was being discussed by “eminent people” in Tripoli, although they cautioned that neither Colonel Gaddafi nor the rebel council in Benghazi appeared ready to accept such a move.Earlier,Libya’s acting foreign minister, Abdel Ati al-Obeidi has told the Greek prime minister in Athens that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wants the fighting to end.
“It seems that the Libyan authorities are seeking a solution,” Dimitris Droutsas, the Greek foreign minister, said. He added that Obeidi planned to travel on to Malta and Turkey.
Obeidi crossed into neighbouring Tunisia and travelled from Djerba airport to the Greek capital on Sunday.
” Libyan government requested to send an envoy with a message for prime minister George Papandreou and that is why he is in Athens,” a senior Greek government official said.
The Libyan official met with Papandreou later on Sunday evening.
Papandreou’s office said Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, the Libyan prime minister, requested Obeidi’s visit during a phone conversation on Saturday. Papandreou also discussed the Libyan crisis with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, on Sunday.
Papandreou has been talking by phone with the leaders of Qatar, Turkey and Britain over the last two days.
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