(See EXTRA and MET for more on unrest in the Mideast and North Africa.)
April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Italy rejected a reported cease-fire proposal by Muammar Qaddafi and said it is recognizing Libya’s opposition as the legitimate government as rebels fought loyalists at the oil port of Brega.
“These proposals are not credible,” Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said at a joint news conference today in Rome with Ali al-Isawi, the foreign affairs coordinator of Libya’s Interim National Council. Frattini, who said arming Libyan rebels remained a “last resort,” was reacting to comments made by a Qaddafi envoy in Greece. Frattini said any cease-fire must be imposed on the Libyan leader after past truces were “systematically violated.”
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