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I think the more we engage and are seen to support their legitimate aspirations and to work with the progressive and tolerant democratic forces, the better chance that what emerges in the post-Qadhafi era will embody those things.

The international community is increasingly united around a shared insistence that Qadhafi must go.

I think there is an opportunity here for us to shape this, to engage with the constructive elements that are there that want to be associated, that want to embrace the values that were in the Transnational National Council's statement.

Qadhafi, his family and his regime have lost all legitimacy. They must go so that the Libyan people can determine their own future.