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Tripoli –\u00a0 The government of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has contacted foreign states offering an immediate ceasefire, but there was scepticism that the proposal could end the three-month-old conflict.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire offer was unlikely to deflect Western leaders, meeting for a Group of Eight summit in the French seaside resort of Deauville, who say they are steadily moving closer to their goal of forcing Gaddafi from power.<\/p>\n

Spain said it was one of several European governments to have received a proposal from Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve received the message and our position lies with the rest of Europe,\u201d a spokesman for the Spanish prime minister\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is anxious for there to be an agreement \u2026 but certain steps have to be taken first and so far they haven\u2019t been taken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Foreign reporters in Tripoli were summoned to a news conference given by the Libyan prime minister, though there was no word on what he would be talking about.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi\u2019s government has offered ceasefires before but each time, these have been rejected by rebels who say they will accept nothing short of the Libyan leader\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n

Despite the latest ceasefire offer, forces loyal to Gaddafi were on Thursday mounting their most intensive bombardment for days in the rebel-held city of Misrata.<\/p>\n

A Reuters reporter in the city, which is about 200 km\u00a0 east of Tripoli, said he could hear mortars landing every few minutes in the western outskirts of Misrata.<\/p>\n

He said there was a steady flow of ambulances going to and from the front line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bombing started at about 7 a.m. (0500 GMT). Today\u2019s mortar fire is quite fierce and sustained. The mortars are coming closer to the front line than they have for several days,\u201d said Abdellatif Sueihy, a 56-year-old rebel fighter.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi\u2019s security forces cracked down ferociously when thousands of Libyans rebelled against his rule.<\/p>\n

NATO missiles and warplanes have been bombing targets in Libya for two months under a UN mandate to protect civilians from attack.<\/p>\n

Rebels now control the east of the country, around their main stronghold of Benghazi, and pockets of land in the West.<\/p>\n

But the conflict has reached stalemate on the ground, with the rebels unable to advance towards Tripoli and NATO powers \u2014 wary of getting sucked into new conflicts after their experience in Iraq and Afghanistan \u2014 refusing to put troops on the ground.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Western officials say they are confident that they are gradually loosening Gaddafi\u2019s grip on power through a combination of sanctions and military and diplomatic pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are wearing down a regime over time,\u201d said a U.S. defence official. \u201cYou make the elites feel uncomfortable; you get dissension in the upper ranks. It doesn\u2019t happen quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you are trying to do is get the regime to read the writing on the wall,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi, who has been in power for more than four decades, denies that his troops target civilians and say his security forces were forced to act to put down a rebellion by criminals and members of al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama said on a visit to London on Wednesday there would be no let-up in the pressure on Gaddafi to quit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely agree that, given the progress that has been made over the last several weeks, Gaddafi and his regime need to understand that there will not be a let-up in the pressure that we are applying,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have built enough momentum that, as long as we sustain the course that we are on, that he is ultimately going to step down,\u201d he said. \u201cUltimately this is going to be a slow, steady process in which we are able to wear down the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama will be among the G8 heads of state who are expected to discuss ways to break the impasse at their summit in France on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n

Attempts to build a consensus in the group over Libya may be complicated by Russia, which opposes the NATO bombing. (Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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