Tripoli Post
July 7, 2011
Seif al-Islam Al Qathafi (right) during his interview with El Khabar newspaper (Tripoli Post)
Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's son, Seif al-Islam said that his father's government was in talks with the French government. Though there was no immediate comment from Paris about his revelation, on Sunday, France appeared to shift its position on the Libyan uprising, suggesting that there could be no military solution and that Muammar Al Qathafi loyalists and Libyan rebels should begin direct negotiations.
In the first interview he granted to an Arab newspaper since the start of the conflict in Libya in mid-February, speaking from Tripoli, Seif al Islam told Algerian newspaper El Khabar: "The truth is that we are negotiating with France and not with the rebels.
He said that when the French authorities heard that a group from Benghazi were meeting in Cairo to the discuss the Libya crisis, the French authorities told them they supported them, but if they were to make other contacts without their being aware of them, or behind their backs, they would immediately stop their support.
Seif went on to say that the French told the rebels that all negotiations must be made through France, and that they were not involving themselves in the conflict without any considerations, but they have commercial interests in Libya and are interested in the government,
Asked why Libya has not disclosed to the public the documents proving the financing of the French Sarkozy's presidential campaign, Seif said that they would not use all their weapons at once, “We have more surprises, and a weapon that we shall use at the right time ...”
Talking about the averse publicity about Libya in the press, Seif said that before the mediation efforts by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the South African President Jacob Zuma and the African Union, there were so many lies against Libya.
Seif said: “They reported that Libya had killed thousands of demonstrators, and said we conducted air strikes on civilian. The world now knows that it was all lies. The Human Rights Watch organisation has acknowledged that the information was false, Amnesty International also said it was false, while the Pentagon made its own investigation and found out it was all false information.”
The Libyan leader's son went on to say...
In the first interview he granted to an Arab newspaper since the start of the conflict in Libya in mid-February, speaking from Tripoli, Seif al Islam told Algerian newspaper El Khabar: "The truth is that we are negotiating with France and not with the rebels.
He said that when the French authorities heard that a group from Benghazi were meeting in Cairo to the discuss the Libya crisis, the French authorities told them they supported them, but if they were to make other contacts without their being aware of them, or behind their backs, they would immediately stop their support.
Seif went on to say that the French told the rebels that all negotiations must be made through France, and that they were not involving themselves in the conflict without any considerations, but they have commercial interests in Libya and are interested in the government,
Asked why Libya has not disclosed to the public the documents proving the financing of the French Sarkozy's presidential campaign, Seif said that they would not use all their weapons at once, “We have more surprises, and a weapon that we shall use at the right time ...”
Talking about the averse publicity about Libya in the press, Seif said that before the mediation efforts by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the South African President Jacob Zuma and the African Union, there were so many lies against Libya.
Seif said: “They reported that Libya had killed thousands of demonstrators, and said we conducted air strikes on civilian. The world now knows that it was all lies. The Human Rights Watch organisation has acknowledged that the information was false, Amnesty International also said it was false, while the Pentagon made its own investigation and found out it was all false information.”
The Libyan leader's son went on to say...
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