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Libyan ceasefire 'immediately violated'

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The ceasefire announced by Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan regime "isn't true" or has been "immediately violated", US President Barack Obama's national security aide Tom Donilon says.

Gaddafi's army announced the new ceasefire earlier on Sunday, adding it was heeding an African Union call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, as allied forces tightened enforcement of a UN resolution aimed at halting attacks on civilians to suppress a month-long uprising.

Asked about the ceasefire, Donilon said: "Our view at this point... is that it isn't true or has been immediately violated.

"So we'll continue to monitor Gaddafi's actions, not just his words, and continue our efforts to enforce the terms of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1973," he told reporters travelling with US President Barack Obama in Brazil.

British officials meanwhile said they would consider Tripoli's promise of a ceasefire on "actions not words", as more war planes left for the theatre from eastern England.

 

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