G8 leaders call on Gaddafi to go

World leaders at the G8 summit in France have issued a joint call for the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to step down. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and U.S. President Barack Obama were among those in attendance, and all agreed that they could not allow Gaddafi to stay in power any longer. The communique issued at the end of the G8 summit says, "Gaddafi and the Libyan government have failed to fulfill their responsibility to protect the Libyan population and have lost all legitimacy. He has no future in a free, democratic Libya. He must go." The communique was issued as NATO reported that government forces had laid landmines in the rebel-held western Libyan city of Misrata.

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Megan Borows