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No plans to return to Libya, NATO says
Jan 26, 2012, 13:33 GMT
Brussels - NATO does not plan to return to Libya, even after this week's violent clashes in the former stronghold of ousted leader Moamer Gaddafi, the military alliance's chief said Thursday.
Initial reports Monday suggested Bani Walid had been recaptured by forces loyal to Gaddafi, who was killed by insurgents in October following a NATO airstrike on his convoy.
But on Wednesday, Libya' defence minister said the unrest, which left four people dead, was just 'an internal problem between two groups of young men' which had been resolved.
'We terminated our operations in Libya on October 31,' NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels.
'We are not present in Libya and we have no intention to return,' he added.
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