V.serious mistake to let Gaddafi be killed - Tajani

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 16 - It was a "very serious mistake" on the part of the West to let former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi be killed after an uprising in the Arab Spring in 2011 because his death unleashed instability in the north African nation, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Wednesday.
    "It was a very serious mistake to let Gaddafi be killed, he may not have been the champion of democracy, but once he was finished, political instability arrived in Libya and Africa", said Tajani, interviewed by conservative journalist Alessandro Sallusti at the Versiliana midsummer forum in Marina di Pietrasanta (Lucca) on the north Tuscan coast.
    Gaddafi, who presided over a rapprochement with Italy, was killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. (ANSA).