Senior Nato leaders including French President Nicolas Sarkozy are expected in Libya for their first talks since Col Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.
They will meet the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) and other anti-Gaddafi figures.
NTC chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil has pledged «the leaders… will be safe».
They will fly first to Tripoli and then to the former rebel stronghold of Benghazi, where there will be speeches in Liberty Square, reports say.
The French president is expected to be accompanied by Henri Bernard Levy, the philosopher seen by many observers as a driving force behind Mr Sarkozy’s decision to take military action in Libya.
Meanwhile, the UK has circulated a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council that would ease UN sanctions against Libya.
For its part, the US said it was encouraged by the increasing control the NTC was exercising over security forces in the country.
Nato has been carrying out air strikes under a mandate from two UN resolutions to protect Libyan civilians.
‘All the gold’
On Wednesday, Mr Jalil appealed for weapons to help the NTC take areas still loyal to Col Gaddafi, telling the BBC the ousted leader was in southern Libya plotting his revenge.
A written message attributed to Col Gaddafi appealed to the UN to stop «crimes» against his birthplace, Sirte. The strongman who led his country for four decades had previously said he would rather die than flee Libya.
As well as Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, Gaddafi loyalists still control parts of Bani Walid, south-east of the capital, and Jufra, while Mr Jalil said many pro-Gaddafi forces had fled to Sabha in the southern desert.
Source: BBC