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9 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 09:03 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged a group of Western and Arab powers to step up pressure to remove Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

“Time is on our side,” she told a meeting of the Contact Group on Libya. “Gaddafi’s days are numbered.”<\/p>\n

The meeting in the United Arab Emirates is expected to firm up plans to set up a fund to help the Libyan rebels.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Tripoli has denied allegations of war crimes made at a UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.<\/p>\n

Top officials from the Contact Group – which includes Britain, France and the US, as well as Arab allies Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar – are meeting in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the post-Gaddafi era in Libya.<\/p>\n

At the start of the talks, Mrs Clinton said: “As time passes, maintaining our resolve and unity only grows more important.<\/p>\n

“Alongside our military mission to protect the Libyan people, we must continue to escalate the political, diplomatic and financial pressure on Gaddafi and his regime.<\/p>\n

“Time is on our side – but we know we must sustain the pressure. Gaddafi’s isolation is growing, as evidenced by the increasing number of calls for his departure.”<\/p>\n

In Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council is debating a report on alleged human rights violations<\/a> committed by both government troops and the rebels.<\/p>\n

Libyan diplomat Mustafa Shaban told members that his government was “the victim of a widespread aggression” and blamed the media, opposition and foreign mercenaries for human rights abuses, including “acts of cannibalism”.<\/p>\n

In a separate development, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said there was evidence that Col Gaddafi had ordered the rape of hundreds of women as a weapon of war against rebel forces.<\/p>\n

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