Tripoli: According to the UN, the Libyan government has promised aid workers access to areas under its control. UN officials say the agreement allows humanitarian workers to set themselves up in the capital, Tripoli, and to come and go freely into Libya.
Meanwhile, about 1,000 people who were evacuated from Misrata have arrived in the rebel base of Benghazi.
Pro-Gaddafi forces have been pounding the city for days and hundreds of people are thought to have been killed.
Those evacuated were brought out on a ship chartered by the aid agency, the International Organisation for Migration, which says thousands more are waiting to be rescued.
Rebel forces on Monday said they were making ground in Misrata, but that pro-Gaddafi forces were continuing to press the rebel-held town of Ajdabiya in the east.
Media reports say that the Libyan authorities have promised aid workers and their equipment access to all areas under their control.
But the besieged city of Misrata is not within their control – it is held by the rebels.
For aid workers to help the people there the fighting would have to stop but, according to the UN, the government has not committed itself to a ceasefire.
The city has been heavily bombarded by pro-Gaddafi forces in recent days, and is running short of basic food and medical supplies.
The head of Nato in Libya, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said Col Gaddafi’s forces had employed what he called underhand and immoral tactics in their seven-week drive to dislodge the rebels from the city
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