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Obama presses Libyan leader to leave
Updated: 2011-02-27 10:46
(Xinhua)
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Saturday stepped up pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying that he should leave now.
They discussed "appropriate and effective ways" for the international community to respond, the statement said.
Obama ordered on Friday to freeze assets of the Libyan government, Gaddafi and his family following the suspension of US embassy operations in Tripoli earlier in the day.
Gaddafi has said that he would not leave his country but rather die "as a martyr".
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