Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The dangerous friendship of the President of the Council "Trafficking in human beings protected by Gaddafi"

ROME - Silvio Berlusconi is to want the friendship agreement between Italy and Libya. He is to sweep off the table all the doubts that had blocked the Italian diplomacy and by the Prodi government to come to terms with Muammar Gaddafi. Whatever the cost, the normalization of relations with Tripoli and friendship with the Libyan dictator has become one of the glories of the Knights of international politics.

The picture emerging from the cable obtained by Wikileaks is classified in the possession of The Republic anticipates that expressed. Reading them you are seizing the concerns of the U.S. explaining the Berlusconi government. That since his return to Palazzo Chigi in 2008 the Libyan dictator meets eight times.

Gaddafi - diplomacy is the belief of the stars and stripes - is happy to be "duty paid" by the Italian prime minister in a vain attempt to enter the parlor of European politics. DOCUMENTS IN FULL EXPRESS SPECIAL The Colonel is a leader to be reckoned with in Europe everybody knows that.

By EU Commission President Prodi in Brussels receives. From the premier trading partnership between Italy and Libya, but the signature block. Too exorbitant demands of Gaddafi, a disproportionate economic and political. Too few guarantees respect for human rights for immigrants. Then in the spring of 2008, the Government after a few months back that Berlusconi flew to Benghazi to sign the historic "treaty of friendship, partnership and cooperation" that puts an end to disagreements about the damage colonial Italian.

Yet only a few months before our ambassador to Tripoli Francesco Trupiano, the Americans explained the obstacles and doubts about the deal. The ARCHIVE FILES The Cable Wikileaks "confidential" and directed the State Department in Washington is 7 November 2007. The U.S. ambassador in Tripoli gives an account of the meeting with the Italian colleague.

In no uncertain terms that defines the Colonel and leadersphip Tripoli partners "from the pirate mentality." With them, he adds, will not be easy to close an agreement as soon as possible. "They have a real strategic vision, they do harm themselves by emphasizing links between tactical concessions and compensation." In short, the Libyan deal as Suk, do not listen to the Italian demands and continue to raise the price.

Above all, "insist that the highway is due to the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has offered to provide funding during a visit to Tripoli in 2004." The famous highway from 5 billion that will give Berlusconi a few months after Gaddafi (but then face difficulties in raising funds for its construction).

So August 30, 2008 the agreement was signed in Benghazi. A few days after Trupiano explains the contents of the American Embassy. In a classified file addressed to the Department of State U.S. diplomats describe the consternation the ceremony with Berlusconi in the presence of the descendants of victims of colonialism and say: "The Libyan government was eager to finish this year the historic treaty with Italy to ' interior of the recently opened Europe.

" Even after the entry into force of the Libyans are a partner, "pirate". In a cable dated 17 February 2009, the U.S. ambassador, Gene A. Cretz, said the "frustration" of the Italian colleague in front of the Libyans who continue not to cooperate on immigration. Trupiano for "not plausible" that tens of thousands of migrants pass for Libya "without at least tacit government consent, if not its" complicity "in human trafficking, weapons and terrorists crossing.

But Berlusconi's government continues to deal with Gaddafi as a friend. The agreement was finally ratified in May 2009, Libya began to cooperate. For the first time takes up 500 immigrants rejected by our patrol boats. Cretz said that Libya "has decided to take on board its ships immigrants.

In a case called Eni, which operates as an offshore platform, a vessel to tow the African coast. In another allowed a ship Italian migrants to return to the ground. Once in Tripoli, according to the Italian Embassy, the migrants will be processed and sent to a detention center. " The American concerns are for their treatment (some write, potrbbero granted asylum).

Theme that instead does not seem to affect our government. Cretz writes that for humanitarian organizations detention centers have gone from "poor and crowded to accept, but with the arrival of new immigrants," the conditions likely to worsen. " He concludes alarmed: "The Libyan government takes families and national groups together to facilitate the mass deportations on charter flights to West Africa." But the problems that Italy meets with Libya, Gadhafi received Berlusconi in Rome while also affect safety.

An Italian source informed the U.S. diplomats in Tripoli that the Colonel is "deliberately delaying" the destruction of chemical weapons provided by signing the International Convention CWC. Information so alarming to push Cretz ambassador to ask Washington to intervene. Meanwhile, the business with Italy continues.

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