UN Secretary general, UK PM discuss new resolution for Libya

Libya revolution flag replaces the other one over Libyan Embassy in Cairo. In the latest updates, The NTC have captured another of Colonel Gaddafi's sons, Saadi, Al Arabiya is reporting. US intelligence does not believe Colonel Gaddafi has left Libya, the Pentagon says

and that US surveillance mission will continue over the coming days. Additionally, UN Secretary general Ban Ki-moon is to make statement from New York shortly after speaking with British Prime Minister David Cameron and discussing a new UN resolution for Libya.

Muammar Gaddafi was a hunted man on Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made a last-ditch stand in the capital and world leaders embraced the fractious Libyan rebels as new masters of the oil-rich North African state. Nearly 48 hours after a pincer thrust on Tripoli by the irregular rebel armies, launched in tandem with an uprising in the city, Gaddafi's tanks and sharpshooters appeared to hold only small areas, including his Bab al-Aziziya headquarters. Civilians, who mobbed the streets late on Sunday to cheer the end of dictatorship, stayed indoors as gunfire crackled. Gaddafi's prime minister showed up in Tunisia. State television went off the air and rebels said they had seized its transmitters.

Al Arabiya reported fierce fighting between Libya rebels and Qaddafi forces in Bokmash near the Tunisian border. Muammar Gaddafi's snipers are scattered across Tripoli, the Libyan capital. Even areas that are under opposition control are not yet fully secure. While Gaddafi's forces have withdrawn from most areas, sleeper cells have not. Bab al Azaziyah - the site of Gaddafi's compound - is a front line still being held by the government. And rebels knew that this would be their biggest challenge once they entered the capital. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Tripoli.

More Libyan embassies abroad hoisted the rebel flag. Western powers who deployed air power in support of various rebel groups in different regions, urged the "Brother Leader" to accept his 42 years of absolute power were over, and to end the bloodshed after six months of civil war that has ebbed and flowed erratically across the sparsely populated desert nation. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will fly to the Libyan rebel capital of Benghazi on Tuesday. He was speaking in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa at the African Union's headquarters where an emergency meeting on Libya had just begun, Reuters reported. "From here I will travel to Benghazi as foreign minister of Turkey but, at the same time, as chairman of the international Libya contact group. There is a beginning of a new era in Libya for a future, democratic, united Libya. What we always defended as Turkey was a new Libya based on the aspirations of the people of Libya without being divided and without there being a chaotic situation."

The foreign minister of Poland, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency, said Monday his country is exploring ways it can help Libya's transition to democracy. Radek Sikorski refused, however, to comment on a report saying Poland supplied Libyan rebels with weapons in the spring. The report, published Monday by the news agency PAP, cited an anonymous government source.
 
Meanwhile, a group of Libyan citizens briefly took over Libya's embassy in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Monday, raising the rebels' tricolour flag and demanding that the ambassador resign, before police removed them peacefully. Former embassy employee, Amira Berma, told The Associated Press that the Libyan ambassador to Bosnia, Salem A. A. Finnir, was a die-hard Gadhafi supporter and should resign. Berma was among a dozen protesters who entered the building, demanding that the ambassador surrender the embassy to them. Berma said Finnir would inform Tripoli about any sign of disloyalty among staff, which always resulted in harassment of their families back in Libya.

The national council's Jalil said it would favour foreign countries that had supported the rebellion -- a potential blow to the likes of Chinese and Russian oil companies, though they are not the only ones to have cut deals with Gaddafi. Russian energy firms are likely to be barred from resuming work in Libya if NATO-backed rebels succeed in overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi, a Russia-Libya business group said on Monday.
"We have lost Libya completely," Aram Shegunts, director general of the Russia-Libya Business Council, told Reuters. "Our companies won't be given the green light to work there. If anyone thinks otherwise they are wrong. Our companies will lose everything there because NATO will prevent them from doing their business in Libya."
Gazprom, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas exploration in Libya, but suspended operations after an uprising broke out earlier this year against Gaddafi's rule.

In other developments, Libya's official television Al-Jamahiriya went off the air on Monday afternoon, correspondents said, amid unconfirmed reports that rebels had seized the state broadcaster. Al-Jamahiriya stopped broadcasting at around 14:00 GMT, with television screens suddenly turning black. Minutes later the network's logo appeared at the bottom right of the screen with no picture or sound transmitted.
Libyan opposition websites said rebels, who have taken large swathes of Tripoli where they control several neighbourhoods, seized the headquarters of the television. The claim could not be immediately verified, reported AFP.

Reuters reported that the National Transitional Council's rebel flag is being raised over Libya's embassy in Algeria. On the diplomatic front, Egypt has released a statement through its foreign minister that it recognises the Libyan rebel government. And France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says the NATO took in Libyan bombardments were calculated and the result very satisfying, adding that it is over for Gaddafi. While Libyan diplomats in Prague on Monday burned a portrait Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi and his collapsing regime's flag, hoisting instead the rebel flag over Libya's mission in the Czech capital.
"We continue to represent our homeland in the Czech Republic like all other diplomatic missions across the globe," the diplomats said in a statement issued in Prague. Libyan interests in the Czech Republic are represented by charge d'affaires  Nuri Ghavi, while the regional Libyan ambassador Ahmed Menesi is in Vienna, Austria. - AFP. Whereas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in a statement on Sunday evening, repeated his condemnation of NATO forces aiding Libyan opposition forces who have moved forward on the Libyan capital.

"The democratic governments of Europe, well not all of them, but we know who they are, are demolishing Tripoli with their bombs," he said. "And the allegedly democratic and Democrat government of the US too, just because they want to. Only because they feel like it. Meanwhile, Niger has begun air surveillance operations along its northern border with Libya to monitor possible infiltration of armed groups fleeing the conflict in the neighbouring country, Niger military sources said. The air patrols started after authorities said they had seized nearly 60 vehicles and a dismantled helicopter smuggled out of Libya last week, underscoring the threat of the conflict spilling over into weakly controlled neighbours to the south. Authorities in the region are concerned some forces in Libya's conflict, including Gaddafi's loyalists and mercenaries from Niger and Mali fighting there, could cross the largely unpatrolled Sahel region into their territory. Libyan rebel fighters have entered the capital Tripoli in a coordinated move that has routed forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Furthermore, The African Union will hold an emergency meeting on the situation in Libya later on Monday, AU officials said, as rebels appeared to be ending Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years in power after a six-month civil war. The emergency peace and security council meeting is due to take place at 1330 GMT at the African Union's headquarters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Libyan rebels swept into Tripoli but government tanks and snipers have been putting up scattered, last-ditch resistance in the Libyan capital on Monday. In other news, Libyan state TV goes off air, rebel spokesman says state TV HQ is now under rebel control.

Mahmoud Jibril, head of the Libyan rebel council addressed a press conference where he congratulated the rebels on taking Tripoli, and said that Gaddafi tried to "scare" the international community by saying that Islamic extremists were part of the rebels' movement.  He said that the rebel fighters will put down their arms as soon as the conflict is over, and will go back to being "productive" civilians. He added that "some infractions" were allowed during this period, but would not be allowed any more. Jibril calls for the protection of the rights and safety of civilians, as well as for forgiveness and building a "state of law which will provide fair trials for all people who were victims" and for those accused of causing damage. Jibril has called on the rebels to show that Libya is a country of "religiously moderate" people, and has called upon "everyone to take care and guard properties both public and private." 

"We would like to give great thanks to the international community who supported the Libyan people during their crisis and through the resolutions 1970 and 1973 prevented and the procedures taken to protect civilians prevented human catastrophes and massacres that were about to take place against the Libyan people.  "We thank in particular, all the countries that provided all kinds of support from the birth of this revolution until the moment of victory. "Gaddafi has tried ... to instigate civil war and division between the sons of a unifed Libya. But the children and sons and daughters of Libya have proved to the world who patriotic and how responsible they are. And how much they are about the unity and safety of their nation."

"During the last few days the revolutunaries in Tripoli have really proved that they are the revolutionaries of the capital. And that the calls for Tripoli to be our capital were rightful calls. "Muammar Gaddafi will be remembered and his period of rule through the acts that he committed against the rebels and the world. From political assassinations, arrests and mind games. And oppressing all the efforts of the Libyan people to oust him since the first year of his revolution. There were many, many attempts to oust Gaddafi. The Libyan people never submitted to Gaddafi, since the first year of the revolution..or, rather, since the first year of the coup. "But God has chosen that Gaddafi's end should be at the hands of these youths, so that they can join the Arab Spring that is going around the Arab nations.

"And now I say with all transparency that the era of Gaddafi is over. "Libyans must realise that the coming period will not be a bed of roses. We face many challenges and we have many responsibilities. Beginning with healing the wounds and putting our hands in one anothers. All this in loyalty to the blood of our martyrs. And to the principles tat this revolution was created for: creating safety, security, peace and prosperity. These principles can only be achieved through reconciliation, forbearance and tolerance. "All of this will be done after we put the finishing touches and we identify those who are responsible for acts in Libya. "Therefore I call upon all Libyans to practice self control and to protect the lives and properties of others."

He continued: "We are on the threshold of a new era ... of a new stage that we will work to establish the principles that this revolution was based on. Which are: freedom, democracy, justice, equality and transparency. Within a moderate Islamic framework.  "A nation in which all citizens are equal ... and which can include all factors and factions of society. From the east of Libya to the west. From the North to the south and the centre. We are all Libyans. We all have the right to live with dignity in this nation. We appreciate the cities that have been delayed in joining the revolution as a result of the siege. "[...] We aim for a country where all people are equal, regardless of race or colour. And a country in which minorities have rights. And can practice their culture and their way of life. And take on their responsibilties. We would like to comfort all countries on the safety of their citizens and their interests in Libya.

"We would like to confirm to the international community that New Libya will take care to establish strong relations on the basis of mutual benefits and mutual respect and will work hard to become an effective member of the international community. And to uphold the international law and human rights. And to establish rule of law and to contribute effectively to international peace and security. And will take care and appreciate the nations that support this revolution. And which stood by the revolution since its birth until its end. "These countries will have a special form of relations and Libya will have good and friendly relations with everyone. "May peace be with you."

Jalil also answered press questions, those were some of his answers: "I can't say that the revolutionaries have complete control over Tripoli. Bab al-Azizyah and the surroundinga reas are still outside our control, so we have no knowledge of whether he is there.  "As for cities currently under siege such as Sirte and Sabha, they will rise up from within as the strangehold that Gaddafi's forces have them under eases."

And to another question:

"Mohamed Gaddafi and Saif al-Islam are under the control of the revolutionaries and they are in safe places. As for the NTC's future plans, they can be found in the constitutional declaration."

To a question about his own role post-Gaddafi:

"My role after the fall of Gaddafi will continue, unless I lose control of the aspirations and goals that I aim for. But I expect that the youths of Libya and the revolutionaries will be up to the responsibility. We aim for peace, justice and a nation of law." 

Jalil says that he hopes that Gaddafi is captured alive so that he can put on trial.

"We will provide him with a fair trial. But I have no idea how he will defend himself against these crimes that he committed against the Libyan people and the world."

To another question, about conditions under which he may resign:

"Initially, I must say that the revolutionaries are the basis of this revolution. And they led the revolution against this regime by conducting peaceful protests and they bore the burden of the military battles. They also bore the burden of providing security within the cities. "My fear is that some actions which are outside the framework of the orders they get from their leaders. Especially those concerning revenge. I object strongly to any execution outside the framework of the law, regardless of the act done. I hail the leaders of these groups and trust their word  but some of their followers worry me. "I respect the law and aim to establish a state of law. Therefore anyone who has fallen victim to any acts must" present evidence so that justice may be done.

"Judgments will be open to reconciliation and execution as well."

To a question on when he plans on going to Tripoli.

"When Tripoli is free and the temporary constitution has details of when this will be done."

In other news, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi urged Mummar Gaddafi on Monday to end "useless resistance" and called on rebels who have swept into Tripoli to avoid reprisals. "We ask Colonel Gaddafi to stop all useless resistance so as to save his people from further suffering," Berlusconi said in a statement. Italy was Gaddafi's closest European ally until abruptly reversing its stance in April and backing the rebels. Berlusconi had expressed regrets about the NATO bombing campaign in Libya. While Russia hopes the seizure of power by Libyan rebels will bring an end to bloodshed, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. "The dramatic turn of events in the Libyan conflict bears witness, by all signs, to a shift of power into the hands of the rebels very soon," the ministry said in a statement. "We hope that this will bring an end to the drawn-out bloodshed between Libyans, which has brought so much misfortune and suffering to the population of the country."

Meanwhile, Libyan rebel envoy to Paris said there is a possibility Gadhafi's son Saif will be tried in Libya, not handed to ICC, Reuters reported.

But now that the rebels have gotten to where they wanted, NATO should stop its air strikes in Libya, the country's charge d'affaires in London, who supports the rebels, said on Monday after rebel fighters swept into the heart of Tripoli, heralding the end of Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule. "NATO has done a very good job, they neutralised Gaddafi's war machine," Mahmud Nacua told reporters. "But I think their role will be over and the Libyan people will independently rebuild their country." Asked whether he was calling on NATO to stop its military campaign, Nacua replied: "I think so, yes. There's no danger from Gaddafi and his heavy machines against our fighters."

World leaders were in no doubt that, after six months of an often meandering revolt backed by NATO air power, the disparate and often fractious rebel alliance was about to take control of the North African desert state and its extensive oil reserves. NATO said on Sunday it would continue to enforce its U.N. mandate to protect civilians in Libya. "If we see that there are further (attempts) to attack civilians, we'll continue to enforce the mandate," a NATO spokeswoman said.  Asked whether there might now be infighting within Libya's rebel National Transitional Council, Nacua said: "From our experience in other cities, in Benghazi, in Misrata, there is no problem." "The NTC will move soon from Benghazi to Tripoli and they will appoint a new transitional government, which will rule the country and which will serve the people in all cities."

Nacua acknowledged there might be some difficulties in the next few days "because every revolution will face some difficulties, maybe some mistakes will happen". "There are still some pockets who support Gaddafi, maybe some fighting in some areas, but on the whole our fighters control 95 percent of the city and the country." Nacua added that he had no news about Muammar Gaddafi but he thought he was still in Libya. "The fighters will turn over every stone to find him, to arrest him and to put him in the court."