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Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, said his father’s government is in talks with France, the Algerian El-Khabar newspaper said today, reports Bloomberg.
The Libyan regime is negotiating with France and not with rebels, who are battling the Libyan leader, El-Khabar quoted Gadhafi’s son as saying in an interview.
Gadhafi also said that a Libyan envoy to Paris had received a message from French President Nicolas Sarkozy saying that once an agreement had been forged between France and his father’s administration, the French would then force the rebel’s National Transitional Council to agree to a ceasefire, El-Khabar said.
If France wants to sign oil deals with Libya and wants its companies to return to the country, then it would have to talk to the Gadhafi government, El-Khabar cited Gadhafi’s son as saying. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization started military strikes against Gadhafi’s forces in late March to aid rebels seeking to topple him.