Libyan FM meets with NATO ambassadors

Secretary of the Libyan people's general committee for foreign contacts and international cooperation, Foreign Minister Omar al-Muntasir, on Wednesday met in Tripoli with the ambassadors of the NATO member states accredited to Libya.

During the meeting al-Muntasir told the ambassadors about the request proposed by Yugoslavia to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi to make an initiative to settle the current problems in Yugoslavia.

Al-Muntasir said there are current contacts held between Libyan representatives and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in Italy, adding that Yugoslavia's deputy prime minister, Zoran Lilic, and an accompanying delegation during their visit to Libya, expressing their readiness to accept the bases of the initiative: halting all military operations, the withdrawal of Serb and NATO forces, and forming a peacekeeping force in the region.