15 March 2011
Cape Town — President Jacob Zuma and his counterparts from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Mauritania and Uganda would travel to Libya within the next days to assess the crisis gripping the north African state, Deputy International Relations Minister Marius Fransman said on Tuesday.
The five presidents will do so in their capacity as a high-level panel appointed by the African Union on March 10 to mediate an end to bloodshed in Libya, Fransman said.
“This panel will arrive this weekend or next week.”
Fransman said South Africa viewed the situation in Libya as grave and wanted to urge both the regime of Muammar Gadhaffi and rebels fighting to end his four decades in power to end hostilities.
“The conflict in Libya is taking on the character of a civil war.”
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