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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/cameron-condemns-libya-crackdown.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="David Cameron walks through Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-cameron-condemns-libya-crackdown.jpg" alt="David Cameron walks through Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt"/></a></p>
<p>David Cameron condemned the brutal suppression of anti-government protests in Libya as he became the first foreign leader to visit neighbouring Egypt since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister described the violent crackdown by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s regime &#8211; which reportedly left more than 200 dead &#8211; as &#8220;completely appalling and unacceptable&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I call on them even at this late stage to stop. People&#8217;s aspirations for greater democracy, for greater freedom, for greater rights should be met with reform not repression,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>With Libya&#8217;s second city Benghazi reportedly in the hands of the protesters, Foreign Secretary William Hague said that there were signs that Col Gaddafi may have fled the country for Venezuela.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have seen some suggestions that he is on his way there at the moment,&#8221; he said following talks with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron, meanwhile, was forced to defend the inclusion of defence industry representatives in the business delegation travelling with him, after the Foreign Office revoked a series of export licences to Libya and Bahrain amid fears the equipment could be used for internal repression.</p>
<p>In Cairo, Mr Cameron toured Tahrir Square &#8211; the epicentre of the demonstrations which brought down president Mubarak. Afterwards he described meeting the young pro-democracy activists there as &#8220;genuinely inspiring&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister diverted the start of a planned tour of the Gulf region to hold talks with the new military leadership in Egypt in a bid to help ensure a &#8220;genuine transition&#8221; to civilian rule. His visit had originally been planned to promote trade and investment, and the travelling business delegation included representatives from firms involved in the defence industry &#8211; including BAE, Rolls Royce, Thales, Qinetiq and Babcock.</p>
<p>On Friday, however, the Foreign Office announced that it was revoking a series of export licences to Bahrain and Libya covering items such as tear gas, components for rifles and machine guns, ammunition and crowd control. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, Mr Cameron insisted that it was &#8220;very much in Britain&#8217;s interests&#8221; that the UK continued to promote defence relationships with countries in the region.</p>
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