Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Tuesday with Libyan officials and elicited what he said was a promise to meet all the conditions of a United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire in the country's civil war, DPA reported.
The talks in the Russian capital with envoys from Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi went "relatively" well, Lavrov said at a joint news conference with Thorbjorn Jagland, secretary-general of the Council of Europe.
"Tripoli has promised to meet in full all conditions set out by the United Nations," Lavrov said. "We were told that Tripoli is ready to consider all means ... to end the conflict."
Moscow informed Gaddafi's representatives, who were not identified by name in Russian, that a key issue for implementation of a ceasefire would be "an end to attacks by Tripoli's forces against the civilian population," Lavrov said.
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