Gaddafi 'ready to retreat'
``I can confirm that colonel Gaddafi is ready to retreat completely from political and public life with a firm engagement that we would impede the setting up of a multi party system but on the condition that the Nato airstrikes cease,'' Mesic said in a statement quoted by Hina news agency.
A defiant Moamer Kadhafi has said Libya was ``ready for battle'' as Western leaders mulled their next steps on Wednesday, the fifth day of UN-backed military strikes on his oil-rich country.