Libya has sent a senior aide of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son to London for talks with British officials, according to the Guardian newspaper. Citing unidentified government sources, the newspaper said Mohammed Ismail, an aide to Saif al Islam Gaddafi, visited London in recent days in what it said was one of many contacts between Libya and the West in the past two weeks.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman neither confirmed nor denied the report, saying: "We are not going to provide a running commentary on our contact with Libyan officials."
She added: "In any contact that we do have, we make it clear that Gaddafi has to go."
On Wednesday, Libyan foreign minister Musa Kusa, one of Col Gaddafi's closet advisers, defected and flew by charted executive jet from Tunisia to London. Read More
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