US tells Libya envoys that Gaddafi must go - Africa - Al Jazeera English

US tells Libya envoys that Gaddafi must go - Africa - Al Jazeera English: "US officials have met with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi to deliver a message that the embattled Libyan leader must go, a State Department spokesperson said.

The rare meeting between US diplomats and Gaddafi envoys on Saturday was held 'to deliver a clear and firm message that the only way to move forward is for Gaddafi to step down,' the official said on Tuesday.

'This was not a negotiation. It was the delivery of a message,' the official said in a statement issued in New Delhi, where Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, is on an official visit.

The meeting involved assistant secretary of state Jeff Feltman and two other American officials, said a senior US official, who declined to say who represented the Gaddafi government or where the meeting occurred, although he said it was not in Libya."

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