Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Friday he did not contact Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi since conflicts broke out in that norther African country and that he proposed some measures for solving the situation as a citizen.
Speaking to reporters in Osijek, Mesic said many people appealed to him to help with the evacuation of Croatian workers from Libya given "my good connections in Libya and good contacts with Libyan President Gaddafi and especially with their prime minister, who studied in our country."
Mesic said he went to see the Libyan ambassador but that there was no need to do anything more "about the extraction of our people since it was going well."
Responding to questions from the press, he said he proposed, as a citizen, some measures to help solve the conflicts in Libya, primarily the establishment of an international monitoring mission that would assess the situation there.
Mesic said all rebels in Libya should be amnestied, that crimes should be individualised, a new constitution and reforms passed, and that Libyans should be enabled to decide about their own future.
