Gaddafi meets with Sudanese opposition

Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi on Tuesday in Tripoli received the leaders of the Sudanese opposition who have been meeting since Friday in Tripoli to discuss a national reconciliation plan with the government in Khartoum.

Libyan television broadcast on Tuesday that Gaddafi received leaders of the Democratic National Alliance, which includes the opposition leaders.

On Monday, Libyan television announced that Tripoli proposed to the coalition a plan for a "comprehensive political settlement " calling for an immediate cease fire against the regime of Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, who has been ruling Sudan since 1989 as well as "immediate cease for media campaigns."

Taking part in the Tripoli meetings are the chairman of the coalition, Muhammad Othman al-Merghani, and other figures including former Sudanese Prime Minister al-Sadeq al-Mahdi, who is leading the Ummah Party, and a representative of the leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, Col. John Garang.