#Gaddafi regime admits attempts to talk to west

• Peter Beaumont
• guardian.co.uk



Former Libyan prime minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi said the Gaddafi regime was 'trying to talk to the British, the French and the Americans to stop the killing'. Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images

The regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has initiated a concerted effort to open lines of communication with western governments in an attempt to bring the conflict in the country to an end. As fighting continues in Libya, the country's former prime minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi told Channel 4 : "We are trying to talk to the British, the French and the Americans to stop the killing of people. We are trying to find a mutual solution."