Obiang defende democracia...na Líbia

By Peter Onwubuariri
United Nations, Sept. 20, 2011 (NAN) The African Union on Tuesday recognised Libya's National Transitional Council as the official representative of the Libyan people.
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who holds the AU's rotating chair, said the bloc supports the Libyan people as they build a ``united, democratic, and prosperous and peaceful Libya''.
Nguema, who spoke at a high-level UN conference on Libya in New York, said the 54-member bloc was ready to support the NTC as it works to form an inclusive government.
The UN Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the AU had been reluctant to recognise the provisional authority, which now controls most of Libya.
Nguema declared that now ``the AU is prepared to work with other international partners’’ for a united Libya living in peace.
In his remarks at the high level meeting on Libya, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal called on the deposed leader of Libya, Col. Muammar Gaddafi to urgently step down and publicly renounce violence in the North African country.
`` I am here to speak to Gaddafi; (...) we had an hour and half long conversation at the end of which I asked him to step aside but he did not listen to me.
``In June, I went to Benghazi to speak to him directly and to say to him now everything I told you has played out spare Africa and Libya further pains; spare the world further pains but he did not listen to me.
``Today, I do not know where he is but I am here to speak to him and to say to him, that everything that has happened in the world since I spoke to him till now, will bring anyone to the conclusion that you must step down.
``You must state publicly that you renounce violence and make an appeal to your partisans who are still fighting on your behalf,’’ he said.
--- Trata-se de um despacho da Agência Noticiosa Nigeriana. Por ele se vê como é que os presidentes da Guiné Equatorial e do Senegal sabem aconselhar outros a afastar-se de cena.