Former Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa, who defected to Britain 13 days ago, has flown to Qatar for talks about the situation in his native country, the Foreign Office in London said Tuesday, DPA reported.
Kusa's departure from Britain came just hours after he broke his silence for the first time since his arrival in Britain, pleading for all sides in the Libya conflict to avoid taking the country into civil war and turning it into a "new Somalia."
A Foreign Office spokesman said Kusa would meet Qatari government officials and a range of Libyan representatives in Doha, Qatar's capital.
A meeting of the Libya Contact Group, established at an international conference on Libya in London two weeks ago, was due to take place in Doha Wednesday.
A British spokesman said Kusa was a "free individual" and could travel "to and from the UK as he wishes."
However, the former loyal follower of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi was questioned by police and prosecutors in Scotland last week in connection with the bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie, in Scotland, in 1988.
He was expected to return to Britain after his visit to Qatar.
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