The United Nations humanitarian Chief said that the Libyan Government has promised to his access to the besieged rebel city of Misrata, but with no guarantee that the aggression committed by the forces of Muammar al-Gaddafi would cease.
A Libyan official said that the Government is ready to implement a "safe passage" in Misrata, the only city still in part held by the rebels in the West of the controlled Libya of Gaddafi. At the same time, a witness reported that Government forces continued to pound the city with rockets and artillery.
At least 267 people were killed in the third-largest city of the Libya, Misrata, for more than seven weeks of siege, said the New York-based Human Rights Watch. After inspection of the impact sites and talking to witnesses, the Group has accused the Libyan forces of indiscriminate rocket and attacks mortar on residential districts.
Rebels and civilians were evacuated from Misrata on a mission of international rescue boat took off on trucks or in a wheelchair Monday. One has a leg severely damaged with braces and bandages and some women carried babies.
The rebels have controlled a large part of the eastern Libya, including the second Libyan city of Benghazi, since early in the uprising against Gaddafi that began in mid-February. Gaddafi loyalists have overwritten other rebellions in the West of the Libya, but have not been able to regain control of Misrata through several weeks of attacks.
The Libyan Government refused to heavy weapons, including rockets and tank shells, in the city of fire. Moussa Ibrahim said spokesman the rebels who have been killing civilians and claimed that they had received arms from the Qatar.
The Government has refused repeated requests by foreign journalists based in the capital of Tripoli, go to Misrata. Journalists in Tripoli are not allowed to visit the West of the Libya independently without any of the Government.
Valerie Amos, United Nations humanitarian Chief, said it demanded a meeting with Libyan officials in Tripoli that the United Nations be allowed to visit Misrata and other cities to assess humanitarian needs y.
"I have been given these assurances," she said. However, she added that she had received "no warranty with respect to the my call for an overall cessation of hostilities, to allow people to move, we allow to provide supplies.
Mr. Ibrahim, said that the Government is ready to take international organizations including the United Nations in the fields of the Misrata it controls. "We will allow them to do everything that they want to help the population, and they can observe how our army is acting and behaving in Misrata", he said.
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