Sarkozy Wants to Visit Libyan Rebels with Cameron
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed Friday he planned to visit the Libyan rebel bastion of Benghazi and hoped to make the trip with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron.
"We spoke about this with David Cameron. It should be a Franco-British initiative," Sarkozy told reporters after the G8 summit in Deauville, adding that no date had yet been set for the trip to eastern Libya.
Sarkozy has been invited to visit Benghazi by Mahmud Jibril, one of the leaders of Libya's Transitional National Council, the rebel ruling body set up in opposition to Gadhafi's 43-year-old autocratic regime.
Asked about Sarkozy's offer of a joint trip, Cameron chuckled. "President Sarkozy is always full of good ideas," he told reporters, without confirming he would go along.
Source: Agence France Presse
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