Ares
15th June 2011, 12:16 PM
By Korir, Chief editor (API)
This is good news for the rebels fighters in Libya who have been pushing for Muamar Gadhafi‘s fall from power.
The senior diplomat says he, and all other embassy officials who had secretly entered into negotiations with the Norwegian immigration authorities in a plan to abandon Muamar Gadhafi are now pleased, and will temporarily halt the negotiations for their asylum in Norway and see what happens with the Libyan leader in the coming days.
However, the senior diplomat (Name withheld due to security reasons – some family members are in Libya) says they were not sure if the Transitional Council leaders based in Benghazi will retain them as diplomats in Norway when they finally take over the leadership of the country after Muamar Gadhafi‘s fall.
Muamar Gadhafi is reported to have accepted to take up asylum in Russia because he believes, the Russians will not hand him over to the ICC to face charges already preferred against him.
President Museveni of Uganda had earlier offered Muamar Gadhafi safety in Uganda but the offer was turned down. The same was done by the South African President Zuma, who even chose to travel to Tripoli trying to convince Gaddafi to relinquish power and take up asylum in South Africa or elsewhere in Africa.
Many people do not understand Muamar Gadhafi. The man is brilliant. He knows that by accepting asylum in any African country he is sentencing himself to death because after sometime, he will be sent back to Tripoli in exchange for oil. African governments can easily be pressured to hand him back to Libya.
Russia will not exchange him for oil, and even if Russia was to give in to pressure in some years to come, Muamar Gadhafi would only be handed over to the ICC where he will not be sentenced to death and will have privileges while under detention there.
The choice to take up asylum in Russia is also because Gadhafi knows that Prime Minister Putin will most probably take over the presidency next year. He believes that Putin would not have accepted to back NATO’s attack of his country if he was in power. The senior diplomat in Oslo says Gadhafi feels President Medvedev has let him down, although he is happy that the Russian leader has allowed him to seek refuge in the country.
According to the senior Libyan diplomat in Norway, the Chairman of the world Chess Foundation managed, during the end of his visit to Libya, to convince Muamar Gadhafi to see sense in the whole saga. Some international media outlets have, however, reported that there was no deal reached between Muamar Gadhafi and his visitor, but the diplomat confirms a deal was reached and the international community will soon see the embattled leader leave the country.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/muamar-gadhafi-accepts-asylum-in-russia-will-relinquish-power-in-the-coming-days-says-a-senior-diplomat-in-the-libyan-embassy-in-norway/
This is good news for the rebels fighters in Libya who have been pushing for Muamar Gadhafi‘s fall from power.
The senior diplomat says he, and all other embassy officials who had secretly entered into negotiations with the Norwegian immigration authorities in a plan to abandon Muamar Gadhafi are now pleased, and will temporarily halt the negotiations for their asylum in Norway and see what happens with the Libyan leader in the coming days.
However, the senior diplomat (Name withheld due to security reasons – some family members are in Libya) says they were not sure if the Transitional Council leaders based in Benghazi will retain them as diplomats in Norway when they finally take over the leadership of the country after Muamar Gadhafi‘s fall.
Muamar Gadhafi is reported to have accepted to take up asylum in Russia because he believes, the Russians will not hand him over to the ICC to face charges already preferred against him.
President Museveni of Uganda had earlier offered Muamar Gadhafi safety in Uganda but the offer was turned down. The same was done by the South African President Zuma, who even chose to travel to Tripoli trying to convince Gaddafi to relinquish power and take up asylum in South Africa or elsewhere in Africa.
Many people do not understand Muamar Gadhafi. The man is brilliant. He knows that by accepting asylum in any African country he is sentencing himself to death because after sometime, he will be sent back to Tripoli in exchange for oil. African governments can easily be pressured to hand him back to Libya.
Russia will not exchange him for oil, and even if Russia was to give in to pressure in some years to come, Muamar Gadhafi would only be handed over to the ICC where he will not be sentenced to death and will have privileges while under detention there.
The choice to take up asylum in Russia is also because Gadhafi knows that Prime Minister Putin will most probably take over the presidency next year. He believes that Putin would not have accepted to back NATO’s attack of his country if he was in power. The senior diplomat in Oslo says Gadhafi feels President Medvedev has let him down, although he is happy that the Russian leader has allowed him to seek refuge in the country.
According to the senior Libyan diplomat in Norway, the Chairman of the world Chess Foundation managed, during the end of his visit to Libya, to convince Muamar Gadhafi to see sense in the whole saga. Some international media outlets have, however, reported that there was no deal reached between Muamar Gadhafi and his visitor, but the diplomat confirms a deal was reached and the international community will soon see the embattled leader leave the country.
http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/muamar-gadhafi-accepts-asylum-in-russia-will-relinquish-power-in-the-coming-days-says-a-senior-diplomat-in-the-libyan-embassy-in-norway/