ALGIERS,
Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Algeria would hand over Muammar Gaddafi to the
International Criminal Court if the embattled Libyan leader attempted to enter
the North African country, Algerian local media reported Tuesday.
Local
Arabic-language daily Echorouk quoted well-informed sources as saying that the
government made the decision according to the arrest warrants issued by the
International Criminal Court for Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gaddafi and
intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi.
Algeria
would be committed to all international regulations issued regarding the
situation in Libya, it said.
The
Algerian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Gaddafi's wife and three children
entered Algeria Monday morning, the nation's official news agency APS reported.
However, it did not mention the whereabouts of Gaddafi himself.
The
Algerian government has informed the United Nations and the Libyan rebel
National Transitional Council about the Gaddafis' arrival, the statement said.
Algerian
security services will receive an instruction to close the southern border with
Libya in view of the fragile security situation in the Sahel region and Libya,
Algeria's French-language newspaper El Watan reported on its website, quoting a
government source as saying.
Algeria has
hundreds of kilometers of borderline with Libya, stretching through vast
expanses of sparsely peopled desert.
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