Greek foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas said told a private radio station on Monday that no discussion of Muammar Gaddafi leaving Libya was made during prime minister George Papandreou's meeting in Athens on Sunday evening with a Libyan emissary.

"There is no issue of Gaddafi coming to Greece," Droutsas also stressed in a statement on Real FM radio station on Monday morning.

The Greek premier received acting Libyan Foreign Minister Abdulati Al-Obeidi, an emissary of the Gaddafi regime, on Sunday evening in Athens following a request by Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi in a telephone call to Papandreou.

Droutsas said that Greece is "in constant contact" with both the Libyan regime and the rebels.
He opined that, for the time being, there is no issue of Gaddafi leaving Libya, but added that the regime in Libya is "receiving messages from the international community as well as the rebels", and it is an issue "that needs to be seriously discussed".