Italy says end of Gaddafi rule is inevitable

ROME, February 27:The end of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s rule was ”inevitable”, the foreign minister of Italy, his closest
European ally, said today.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini also said a friendship and cooperation treaty between Libya and Italy was ”de facto suspended”.

We have reached, I believe, a point of no return,” Frattini told Sky Italia television. Asked whether Gaddafi should leave power, he said: ”It is inevitable for this to happen.

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