{"id":432764,"date":"2011-05-30T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/30\/s-africas-zuma-in-libya-for-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:41:45","slug":"s-africas-zuma-in-libya-for-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/30\/s-africas-zuma-in-libya-for-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"S Africa’s Zuma in Libya for peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, has travelled to Tripoli for talks to end Libya’s conflict, as calls mount\u00a0from the international community for Muammar\u00a0Gaddafi, the Libyan leader,\u00a0to stand down.<\/p>\n

Zuma’s office said the main objectives of his visit on Monday include negotiating an immediate ceasefire, enabling the delivery of humanitarian aid and adopting and implementing reforms to eliminate the causes of the conflict.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera’s Cal Perry in Benghazi said that there was a lot of confusion around the South African president’s visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Al Jazeera’s Cal Perry reports on President Zuma’s visit to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
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“We heard initially that [President’s Zuma’s] visit was to “find an exit strategy for Colonel Gadaffi”, [but] his aides have since knocked down these reports, calling them misleading and framing this visit as more of a regional visit to discuss humanitarian concerns.<\/p>\n

“One of the issues that this visit raises is a political question … certainly here in the eastern part of the country, or what they might call liberated Libya … people here are fearful that if a political deal is struck, what would the cost of that political deal be and would this mean a divided Libya … there is a concern on the ground that this could potentially happen”.<\/p>\n

‘Roadmap for peace’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Libyan state television said that Zuma was going to discuss the implementation of the AU “roadmap” for peace, as it reported fresh NATO raids on the Nafusa mountains in the far west and the town of Bani Walid, near Misurata.<\/p>\n

In a statement on the eve of\u00a0Zuma’s visit, his\u00a0ruling African National Congress (ANC)\u00a0in South Africa\u00a0condemned the NATO bombing of Libya.<\/p>\n

“We also join the continent and all peace loving people of the world in condemning the continuing aerial bombardments of Libya by Western forces,” it said after a two-day meeting of its executive council.<\/p>\n

On Friday, G8 leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States called for Gaddafi to step down after more than 40 years in power.<\/p>\n

The Libyan\u00a0government responded by saying any initiative to resolve the crisis would have to go through the African Union.<\/p>\n

“The G8 is an economic summit. We are not concerned by its decisions,” said Tripoli’s deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaaim.<\/p>\n

“We are an African country. Any initiative outside the AU framework will be rejected.”<\/p>\n

Tribal leaders call for united front<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the weekend, more than 100 Libyan community and tribal leaders met with members of the opposition National Transitional Council at a conference in Turkey in a bid to show a united front against Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

The delegates, mostly from the powerful Warfalla clan based in the western city of\u00a0Baniwalid,\u00a0were calling for an end to the violence and the departure of Gaddafi and his sons.<\/p>\n

Baniwalid is said to hold a position of vital strategic importance, and was thus being aggressively targeted by Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

The meeting\u00a0was billed as\u00a0a possible game-changer for the Gaddafi government as the Warfalla are said to have been supporting Gaddafi militarily, especially around the western city of Misurata.<\/p>\n

In the final statement of the conference, the delegates called on their “brothers in Zletin, Tarhuna, Khums, Msellata and Sirte to join the revolution and to put a swift end to this tyranny”.<\/p>\n

On Monday,\u00a0Navi Pillay, the UN rights chief,\u00a0condemned the brutality of the government’s crackdown on protesters in Libya and Syria, saying the actions were shocking in their disregard for human rights.<\/p>\n

“The brutality and magnitude of measures taken by the governments in Libya and now Syria have been particularly shocking in their outright disregard for basic human rights,” he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, also\u00a0on Monday, two French lawyers said they planned to bring legal proceedings against Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president,\u00a0for crimes against humanity over the NATO-led military campaign in Libya.<\/p>\n

Ibrahim Boukhzam, a Libyan justice ministry official in Tripoli, said Jacques Verges and Roland Dumas had offered to represent families he said were victims of the NATO bombing campaign.<\/p>\n

Dumas said the NATO mission, which was meant to protect civilians, was killing them.<\/p>\n

He denounced what he described as “a brutal assault against a sovereign country” and said he was ready to defend Gaddafi should he ever be brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC)\u00a0in the Hague.<\/p>\n

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