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» Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Libya

Asked if one of the people who had been part of the diplomatic mission to Benghazi had been carrying a handwritten letter from the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said no.

Asked if that person had been carrying any letter from the Prime Minister, the PMS said no, and that he didn’t know where that story had come from.

Put that Colonel Gaddafi looked more secure in his position compared to a couple of weeks ago, the PMS said that we were looking at a whole range of options. We remained extremely concerned about the position on the ground and we still thought that Gaddafi needed to go.

Asked if the no-fly zone idea was back on the table, the PMS said that we had always said that it was a sensible contingency plan. The position now was that we were working closely with international partners to look at how this could be done. NATO had been tasked with looking at a range of options and there would be a meeting this week of NATO Defence Ministers.

Asked how unhelpful Russia’s position on no-fly zones was, the PMS said that Russia’s position was a matter for them. The Prime Minister had said that it was important for leaders of all countries to be looking closely at what was going on in Libya, thinking about what might be coming around the corner and planning for it.

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