{"id":405782,"date":"2011-04-28T20:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/u-s-and-international-community-continue-pressure-on-qadhafi\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:29:41","slug":"u-s-and-international-community-continue-pressure-on-qadhafi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/u-s-and-international-community-continue-pressure-on-qadhafi\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. And International Community Continue Pressure On Qadhafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"82.3488664987\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/,%20http:\/\/iipdigital.usembassy.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Department of State<\/a> (Washington,\u00a0DC)<\/p>\n<p>M. Scott Bortot<\/p>\n<p>28 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Washington \u2014 Amid promising signs of civil society in Libya, the United States continues to work with its partners in Libya and the international community to pressure Muammar Qadhafi to step down, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz said April 27.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that we are bringing to bear all we can in terms of our coalition partners, in terms of our own actions, and in terms of beginning to look at the political processes that hopefully will lead to an end to this,&#8221; Cretz said.<\/p>\n<p>The Libya Contact Group meeting in Doha, the NATO ministerial meeting in Berlin, and the African Union, Arab League and United Nations meetings in Cairo show the depth of the effort by the world community to find a solution to the Libya crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a deliberative process that we are engaged in with our allies,&#8221; Cretz said. &#8220;Number 1 was the military part, the protection of humanitarian life and trying to get services flowing to those cities that are affected by Qadhafi, and Number 2 is the political part &#8230; the international consensus that now has become quite solid, that in order for there to be a solution to this, Qadhafi needs to leave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. special envoy to the Libyan National Transitional Council, Chris Stevens, arrived in Benghazi on April 5 to open a dialogue with Qadhafi&#8217;s opposition. Cretz said Stevens is working with the council and meeting with other elements of emerging Libyan civil society.<\/p>\n<p>The council members &#8220;continue to say the right things. They are reaching out to the international community and they are trying to be as inclusive as possible. They are working through the normal bugs that would be a part of any stand-up transitional government in a country that has not had politics for 40 years,&#8221; Cretz said.<\/p>\n<p>Because Libyans have lived under authoritarian rule for more than 40 years, they will face challenges in building a new government, Cretz said. Despite the hurdles, there are encouraging signs in Benghazi of what a Libya of the future might look like.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have [nongovernmental organizations] springing up. You have people debating with each other, debating political issues. You have a seminar at the university &#8230; of a professor talking about constitutional issues. You have cultural events, you have poetry readings, you have newspapers,&#8221; Cretz said. U.S. envoy Stevens &#8220;and I think others have described the situation as a world that you wouldn&#8217;t recognize had you been in Libya on February 16.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the U.S. Embassy staff members left Tripoli, they maintain contact with people in all regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From these people we have been able to get almost daily reports about the situation in the west and about the brutal kind of activities that Qadhafi is taking against the west,&#8221; Cretz said.<\/p>\n<p>Qadhafi&#8217;s family and military units remain the core elements of the regime, but there are others who may be willing to move against it but cannot out of fear, Cretz said. The U.S. is reaching out to them but it must be their decision about which side to take.<\/p>\n<p>Cretz said it is clear that Libyans around the country want Qadhafi to step down and for his regime to end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our sense is that it is not only Benghazi in the east that has forged a consensus, as we have in the international community that Qadhafi has to go and that a new process has to begin,&#8221; Cretz said. &#8220;I think that is a consensus that we have heard from our contacts in the west, the south, the north and in the east, so there is a Libyan consensus on this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This is a product of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. 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