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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/britain-urges-gaddafi-to-stand-down.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Britain has called on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to stand down" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-britain-urges-gaddafi-to-stand-down.jpg" alt="Britain has called on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to stand down"/></a></p>
<p>Britain has joined international calls for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to quit as intensive efforts continued to find and rescue the last of the Britons attempting to flee bloody violence.</p>
<p>With opponents of the regime preparing for battle in a city just 30 miles from Tripoli, William Hague said: &#8220;Of course it is time for Colonel Gaddafi to go. That is the best hope for Libya&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Foreign Secretary said he had revoked diplomatic immunity for the dictator and his family and the Treasury was urgently tracking down UK-held assets to be frozen under United Nations sanctions.</p>
<p>In an unprecedented unanimous vote, the UN Security Council also agreed to refer the brutal repression of the popular uprising to the International Criminal Court.</p>
<p>With no sign of Gaddafi bowing to domestic or outside pressure to step down, however, Mr Hague said the Foreign Office was still &#8220;working intensively&#8221; to identify Britons seeking to flee.</p>
<p>A charter flight landed at Gatwick Airport from Malta on Sunday evening carrying 78 Britons &#8211; among them oil workers dramatically plucked from remote desert locations by special forces. Another aircraft is due to depart from the Maltese city of Valletta.</p>
<p>Mr Hague confirmed that the operation &#8211; using two RAF Hercules transporter aircraft &#8211; had been carried out without the permission of the authorities in Tripoli. But he would not be drawn on whether any further such evacuation sorties were planned.</p>
<p>Mr Hague also confirmed that ex-prime minister Tony Blair had held telephone conversations with Col Gaddafi over recent days &#8211; amid reports the Government asked him to urge the leader to leave.</p>
<p>And he said Mr Blair had been &#8220;right&#8221; to offer the &#8220;hand of friendship&#8221; to the regime in the 1990s &#8211; in return for it renouncing terrorism and giving up nuclear weapon ambitions.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we hadn&#8217;t done that we might have been in a worse position now,&#8221; he said.</p>
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