Nicaragua will not grant asylum to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, a high official in the Sandinista Front of President Daniel Ortega said Thursday, dpa reported.
Rumours had emerged Wednesday in Libya that Gaddafi's children had advised him to request asylum in Nicaragua.
The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry and the government website did not address the rumours, but Jacinto Suarez, international relations director of the Sandinista Front, called such speculation "part of the media conflict in Libya."
"They want to create an atmosphere as if there were no order, as if that were crumbling down," Suarez told Nicaraguan television.
"Who knows what they'll make up tomorrow? What business can Gaddafi possibly have here?" he said.
The Nicaraguan daily El Nuevo Diario had printed a front-page eight-column headline Thursday, with the words, "Horror! Is Gaddafi coming?"
Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba are among the few countries to have expressed their support for Gaddafi in the current crisis in Libya.
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