The governments of the European Union have approved on Monday a package of sanctions against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi to promote its fall and the transition to a democratic system. The measures include an embargo on the exportanción of arms to Libya and a ban on travel to EU territory for 25 people from the dictator's family and immediate surroundings.
The Twenty-seven have also agreed to freeze the accounts of Gaddafi, his family and members of his government and prohibit the sale of riot control agents such as tear gas and other equipment that can be used to repress the civilian population, diplomatic sources have explained to. The decision was taken at a meeting of European ministers in Brussels and measures their effects unfold in the coming days, when the agreement is published in the gazette of the EU.
Regarding the creation of a strip of fly, the spokesman for the EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, said that "the Security Council the UN should take this decision" and added that "even we are not there. " Parallel to this meeting, EU foreign ministers met in Geneva with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, under the Human Rights Council of the UN.
The purpose of this meeting also agreed new measures against Libya. The Human Rights Council has begun its main session of the year with a call to be "vigilant" to the violence in Libya. Clinton, who will meet with other African leaders and European diplomats, hopes to mobilize the international community to achieve a strong and united response to the crisis in Libya after the protests against the regime of Gaddafi.
The U.S. Secretary of State will try to coordinate aid to the opposition, since Washington confirmed yesterday that offered "every assistance" to the Libyan rebels. Also, the Security Council imposed harsh UN sanctions regime. According to a senior U.S. official, quoted by the UN sanctions on Libya are aimed at Gaddafi, but also seek to persuade the leader's inner circle continues to support him.
As proof of the exceptional international situation and its reflection in the Council, this time attended by a record number of foreign ministers, to raise their positions in their speeches to the plenary. One of the major concerns of the international community is the humanitarian crisis in which Libya is coming in and the difficulties of most international agencies to act on behalf of victims of the repressive regime of Gaddafi, and refugees have left the country or trying to.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, opened the session of the HRC with a call to consolidate the changes won by the popular uprisings in the north of Africa "before starting to recover a strong interest or the appearance of new threats" . The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Trinidad Jimenez, has called the sanctions adopted on Saturday by the Security Council of the UN against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi be applied "rigorously" and that the international community remain "firmly "to the" barbarism "that is being committed in Libya.
Moreover, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced a preliminary investigation into the violence in Libya, before any investigation for crimes against humanity. Also the president of the United States, Barack Obama, received today at the White House Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who will address the imposition of multilateral sanctions against the Libyan regime.
The meeting comes after an eventful weekend in which both the U.S. government as the Security Council United Nations has announced sanctions against the Government of Gaddafi, whom Obama called on Saturday to leave the country immediately. 
The Twenty-seven have also agreed to freeze the accounts of Gaddafi, his family and members of his government and prohibit the sale of riot control agents such as tear gas and other equipment that can be used to repress the civilian population, diplomatic sources have explained to. The decision was taken at a meeting of European ministers in Brussels and measures their effects unfold in the coming days, when the agreement is published in the gazette of the EU.
Regarding the creation of a strip of fly, the spokesman for the EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, said that "the Security Council the UN should take this decision" and added that "even we are not there. " Parallel to this meeting, EU foreign ministers met in Geneva with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, under the Human Rights Council of the UN.
The purpose of this meeting also agreed new measures against Libya. The Human Rights Council has begun its main session of the year with a call to be "vigilant" to the violence in Libya. Clinton, who will meet with other African leaders and European diplomats, hopes to mobilize the international community to achieve a strong and united response to the crisis in Libya after the protests against the regime of Gaddafi.
The U.S. Secretary of State will try to coordinate aid to the opposition, since Washington confirmed yesterday that offered "every assistance" to the Libyan rebels. Also, the Security Council imposed harsh UN sanctions regime. According to a senior U.S. official, quoted by the UN sanctions on Libya are aimed at Gaddafi, but also seek to persuade the leader's inner circle continues to support him.
As proof of the exceptional international situation and its reflection in the Council, this time attended by a record number of foreign ministers, to raise their positions in their speeches to the plenary. One of the major concerns of the international community is the humanitarian crisis in which Libya is coming in and the difficulties of most international agencies to act on behalf of victims of the repressive regime of Gaddafi, and refugees have left the country or trying to.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, opened the session of the HRC with a call to consolidate the changes won by the popular uprisings in the north of Africa "before starting to recover a strong interest or the appearance of new threats" . The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Trinidad Jimenez, has called the sanctions adopted on Saturday by the Security Council of the UN against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi be applied "rigorously" and that the international community remain "firmly "to the" barbarism "that is being committed in Libya.
Moreover, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced a preliminary investigation into the violence in Libya, before any investigation for crimes against humanity. Also the president of the United States, Barack Obama, received today at the White House Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who will address the imposition of multilateral sanctions against the Libyan regime.
The meeting comes after an eventful weekend in which both the U.S. government as the Security Council United Nations has announced sanctions against the Government of Gaddafi, whom Obama called on Saturday to leave the country immediately.
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