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Clinton urges Africa to drop Gaddafi, embrace rebels
ANDREW QUINN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Jun 13 2011 18:15
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shakes hands with AU Commission Chairperson, Jean Ping, at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 13, 2011.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged African leaders to abandon Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, saying it was time to live up to their pledges to promote democracy across the continent.
Clinton, the first United States secretary of state ever to address the 53-member African Union (AU), said unreformed African leaders were themselves at risk from the same tide of democracy sweeping the Middle East, proclaiming "the status quo is broken and the old ways of governing are no longer acceptable".
"It is true that Gaddafi has played a major role in providing financial support for many African nations and institutions, including the AU," Clinton said in her speech at the AU's headquarters in Addis Ababa.
"But it has become clear that we are long past the time when he can remain in power."
Clinton urged African states -- many with longtime diplomatic and financial ties to the oil-rich Libyan strongman -- to join the international coalition demanding his exit as the condition for a ceasefire.
She also urged them to close pro-Gaddafi Libyan embassies, expel his diplomats and to build ties with the Benghazi-based rebel National Transitional Council which the United States and its European and Arab allies are promoting as a future interim government for the country.
"Your words and your actions could make the difference in building this situation to finally close and allowing the people of Libya to get to work writing a constitution and rebuilding their country," Clinton said.
Clinton's AU speech came at the end of a three-nation Africa tour during which she sought to highlight the Obama administration's drive to boost trade ties with Africa and encourage better political and economic governance.
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