A Dutch Navy helicopter crew captured by Libyan forces will be released today to Maltese and Greek officials in Tripoli.
The announcement was made by Saif Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi's son, in an interview.
"We are going to hand over the Dutch soldiers to the Maltese and the Greeks," he said, adding: "We told them don't come back again without our permission."
He said the Libyan authorities would keep the Dutch Lynx helicopter which had carried the crew - two men and a woman.
The crew are expected to be flown to Greece on a Greek aircraft. Greece said the operation was agreed by Tripoli following a request from Greece earlier today at a meeting in Athens between an envoy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Dollis. The envoy, Under-Secretary for International Cooperation, Mohammed Taher Siyala, was in Malta yesterday.
The Dutch helicopter crew was captured near Sirte on February 27.
A Dutch delegation of senior diplomats arrived in Malta on Sunday to negotiate their release.
The Dutch crew were taken prisoner during an operation to evacuate two oil workers from Libya. The workers, a Dutch man and another European, were released and allowed to leave Libya while the crew were reportedly held, in good conditions, in Tripoli.
The helicopter had flown from the Dutch frigate Tromp after having previously been at Malta airport.
Footage above shows Libyan state TV report in arabic about the capture of the Dutch crew.
In the interview, Said Gaddafi said the regime would "never surrender" to the rebels.
"This is our country, we will never, ever give up and we will never, ever surrender. This is our country. We fight here in Libya, we die here in Libya," he said.
"The Libyan people, they will never, ever welcome NATO, we will never, ever welcome the Americans either."
Seif dismissed moves by France which today became the first country to recognise Libya's opposition as Libya's rightful representative.
"The French or the Europeans, they should talk to the Libyan people," he said.
"If they want to support the militia, do it. But I will tell you now: you are going to lose. We will win. He also said that this may perhaps be the time to use all miitary might.