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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said that he will not leave Libya and that he is still prepared to enter a ceasefire but only if all sides are involved.
"I'm not leaving my country," he said in a live address on state television in the early hours of Saturday morning.
"No one can force me to leave my country and no one can tell me not to fight for my country."
Gaddafi said that he was still ready to enter a ceasefire but that all sides must be involved and not only his own forces fighting against revolution forces in the east.
"[Libya] is ready until now to enter a ceasefire ... but a ceasefire cannot be from one side," he said in his live speech.
The Libyan leader also called for negotiations with NATO powers to end the air strikes on Libya that were continuing as Gaddafi delivered his live address.
Conciliatory note
In a marked contrast to previous speeches, where he called the revolution forces "rats" and promised to track them down house by house, Gaddafi urged the revolution forces to lay down their weapons and said Libyans should not be fighting each other.
After the pre-dawn broadcast, state television said NATO warplanes had bombed a site in the Libyan capital Tripoli next to the television building during Gaddafi's address.
The Transitional National Council, the revolution's broad political body, refused to acknowledge Gaddafi's conciliatory tone, pointing to his repeated and continued human rights violations.
"[The Gaddafi regime] has repeatedly offered ceasefires only to continue violating basic human rights, international humanitarian law, and the safety and security of Libya and the entire region," the council said in a statement released Saturday.
"Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed or injured. Countless others have been detained, tortured and are still missing. The time for compromise has passed," it said.
"The people of Libya cannot possibly envisage or accept a future Libya in which Gaddafi’s regime plays any role."
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An revolution fighter armed with a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), provides security from atop a building to thousands of comrades and civilians during Friday prayers in central Ajdabiyah April 29, 2011.
Al-Jazeera
