Great Britain and the United States has intensified pressure on the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to leave Tuesday, and fighting the rebels promised to build a free and democratic state if they won power in Tripoli.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, the opening of a conference of 40 governments and international agencies on Libya, Gaddafi has accused followers of the "murderous attacks" on people in Misrata third largest city in Libya.
. As this wide range of countries gathered here today in London, some people suffer terribly under the rule of Gaddafi Our message to them is: there are better days for Libya, "says Cameron.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the coalition military strikes on Libya would continue until Gaddafi fully complied with UN demands to end violence against civilians and tensile forces on the occupied towns .
"We must all continue to increase pressure and intensify the isolation of the Gaddafi regime in other ways as well," Clinton said.
"This includes a united front of political and diplomatic pressure clearly shows that we must go to Gaddafi."
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, told ABC television that Washington has not ruled out arming the rebels, although no decision had yet been taken.
U.S. officials say the UN Security resolution passed this month would help arm the rebels, but an Italian diplomatic source said such a move would require a new resolution backed by a broad international consensus.
On the coastal strip of Libya, the focus of combat troops better equipped Gaddafi has reversed a recent charge by western rebels who took advantage of coalition air strikes to enter a string of towns during last week .
Gaddafi accuses Western powers of Libyan civilian massacres in alliance with the rebels he says are members of Al Qaeda.
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