Kampala: The spokesman for Uganda's president says that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is welcome to live in Uganda.
Tamale Mirundi, the press secretary for President Yoweri Museveni, said Wednesday that the country's policy is to grant asylum seekers exile in the country.
Mirundi said that policy is in place in part because many Ugandans fled during the rule of longtime Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Museveni, who won re-election in February, has been in power for 25 years in Uganda.
It was also reported in Al Arabiya Wednesday that Uganda would welcome Muammar Gaddafi if he requested asylum, reported on Wednesday after Western and other states suggested the Libyan leader should go into exile to end the conflict in his country.
The television channel did not give further details about the African state's offer.
The United States, Britain and Qatar, which joined others at a meeting on Libya in London on Tuesday, suggested Gaddafi and his family could be allowed to go into exile if they took up the offer quickly to end six weeks of bloodshed.
