US President Barack Obama has said that Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi “has lost the legitimacy to rule” Libya because he is only using “mass violence” to cling on to power, and asked him step down immediately.
A White House account of a telephone call between Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said that the President had told Merkel that “when a leader’s only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving now,” The New York Times reports.
Later on Saturday, the United Nations Security Council had voted unanimously to impose sanctions, including a travel ban and the freezing of assets, on Qaddafi and other Libyan leaders.
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