London. .- The Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in London that his Government had offered to mediate to achieve a ceasefire in Libya and to manage the exile of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in an African country. Speaking to reporters on the eve of the conference of the international coalition countries involved militarily in Libya, to be held on Tuesday in London, the Italian minister said that "Gaddafi must understand that would be an act of courage to realize that there is to go.
" "We hope the African Union is able to find a valid proposal" for the exile of Gaddafi, he added, quoted by the London newspaper 'The Guardian'. In this regard, the paper warned that, if he accepts the possibility of exile, Gaddafi should opt for an African country not member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has opened a investigation against several members of the regime - including its leader - for alleged crimes against humanity.
A total of 22 out of 54 African States are not signatories of the Rome Statute that created the ICC. Specifically, these countries are Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. 
" "We hope the African Union is able to find a valid proposal" for the exile of Gaddafi, he added, quoted by the London newspaper 'The Guardian'. In this regard, the paper warned that, if he accepts the possibility of exile, Gaddafi should opt for an African country not member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), whose chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has opened a investigation against several members of the regime - including its leader - for alleged crimes against humanity.
A total of 22 out of 54 African States are not signatories of the Rome Statute that created the ICC. Specifically, these countries are Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.
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