Tripoli: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed on Saturday that he will not leave Libya.
In a live speech on Libyan television he said he was not going to step down or leave his country “No one can force me to leave my country,” he said.
Gaddafi said that he was ready for a ceasefire and negotiations provided Nato “stop its planes”. He added that Libyans could solve their own problems if Nato attacks end.
He added that Libya was ready to enter a ceasefite but a ceasefire could not be from one side.
“We were the first to welcome a ceasefire and we were the first to accept a ceasefire but the Crusader Nato attack has not stopped,” he said. “The gate to peace is open.”
Gaddafi said the Nato airstrikes and naval patrols went beyond the United Nations mandate and urged Russia, China and friendly African and Latin American countries to press the Security Council to take a fresh look at the resolution.
Gaddafi added the strikes and sanctions were affecting civilians and were destroying the country’s infrastructure.
He urged the rebels to lay down their weapons and said Libyans should not be fighting each other.
He blamed the rebellion on mercenaries and foreigners. “We cannot fight each other,” he said. “We are one family.”
Gaddai denied mass attacks on civilians and challenged Nato to find him .
He said that Libyans had not attacked them (West) then why they were attacking the country.
If Nato powers were not interested in talks, however, the Libyan people would not surrender and were willing to die resisting what he called its “terrorist” attacks. He warned Nato that its forces would die if it invaded by land.
“Either freedom or death. No surrender. No fear. No departure,” he said.
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