Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Libya, the revolt of the ambassadors, "the UN to intervene." Today's meeting

NEW YORK. Genocide, crimes of war, apocalypse, action by the international community, emergency meetings at the United Nations. One after another, the words spoken by Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi journalists to leave the mouth open. Him, the diplomat who represented the will of Gaddafi at the UN, turned his back and asks the international community to stop the "mad dog" that is killing its own people.

Like him, many ambassadors around the world said they no longer recognize the Colonel. The person in charge of relations with Beijing, said that it was not the "government of Mussolini and Hitler." The UN said Dabbashi, to establish a "no fly zone" to prevent "mercenaries" hired by the Colonel-in other African countries, do the massacre of the Libyans who are protesting.

The Security Council, the Human Rights Council, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: everyone should be called "urgency" to stop what is called "genocide." The Security Council will meet today at 15, under the presidency of Brazil. "I am sorry to make requests to the international community for my country, but I see no alternative," said Dabbashi spoke to journalists at the Libyan diplomatic mission at the United Nations in Midtown Manhattan.

It is surprising to see a diplomatic turning away so blatantly - and with such harsh tones - the leader of his nation. It raises fears about the "apocalypse" which according Dabbashi is underway in Libya, journalists are not allowed. The ambassador, the number two of a diplomatic mission's request for "a safe corridor for an order as soon as possible, humanitarian aid." To get food and medicine ", the Tunisians and Egyptians will be helpful, indeed are already doing." For Dabbashi "it is impossible to remain silent, we must transmit the voice of the Libyan people in the world." There is no news of a number of representatives of Libya to the UN, Mohamed Shalgam, who disappeared from New York last Friday.

Shalgam spoke only with the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat, said to be in contact with the Colonel to "persuade him to stop these acts." In short, he's trying to play the last card in a game that many, for Gaddafi, is already lost. Washington, once a sworn enemy of Tripoli, is a bystander.

"With great concern." President Obama has not commented, at least not right away. The secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, asked to "stop this bloodshed." The diplomats deployed in the country - relations were resumed in 2009 - have been evacuated, all except those absolutely essential.

The powerful look at America differently from Libya to Egypt and Tunisia, who were considered - for better or for worse - of the Allies. Only three years ago, George W. Bush called Gadhafi, closing a long chapter of misunderstanding and violence between the two countries. In 1986 the Americans bombed Tripoli (many civilian deaths, including the daughter of Colonel).

Then came 1988, Lockerbie, the Libyan bombing of Pan Am against the plane, which cost the lives of over one hundred people.

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