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Still supporting a defeated dictator RT @AJELive: #HugoChavez urges #Libya's #Gaddafi to "resist" & find path to peace is.gd/FBecqP
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Monday, September 5, 2011 - 14:30 GMT+3 - Libya
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has urged Muammar Gaddafi to "resist" and said he was certain the ousted Libyan strongman, whose whereabouts are unknown, is not thinking of leaving the country.
"Nobody knows where Gaddafi is," said Chavez in a telephone interview with the state-run VTV television, adding, "I am sure he is very far from thinking about leaving Libya."
"What he has to do is resist and hopefully that resistance will make it possible to find the path of peace and to defeat the path of war," said Chavez.
Libyan rebels were threatening Monday to attack Bani Walid, a loyalist stronghold where at least one of Gaddafi's sons was believed to be hiding.
Gaddafi himself has not been seen since rebels stormed Tripoli on August 20, although as recently as Thursday he aired audio messages calling on his supporters to prepare for guerrilla war.
Chavez, Gaddafi's main ally in Latin America, has defended the Libyan strongman since the start of the uprising against his four decade old rule in February, accusing NATO of using the conflict to gain control over Libya's oil.
On Monday, Chavez called on the so-called BRICS group of newly emerging economic powers, leftist Latin American governments and African states to join forces to stop the "barbarity" unleashed by NATO in Libya.
"We have to go on a more coordinated counter-offensive to arrest this barbarity," he said, without elaborating. Chavez, who is battling cancer, emerged last week from a military hospital after undergoing a third round of chemotherapy treatment. He did not rule out a need for a fourth round.
