Saturday, February 19, 2011

Paris and London suspended the export of security equipment to Libya and Bahrain

France and the United Kingdom announced Friday, February 18 it had suspended exports of safety equipment bound for Libya and Bahrain, where the challenge regimes has intensified in recent days, causing several deaths among the protesters . "The events of recent days were an opportunity to mark that we expect the authorities [of] Bahrain they translate into action the commitments made," said the spokesman for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bernard Valero.

Thursday, Paris deplored "the use of excessive force resulting in several deaths and many wounded" and said it was "particularly concerned" by recent developments include Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. Friday's session, devoted to the funeral of four Shiites killed yesterday in a raid by security forces, has turned into a bloodbath.

The army fired on a thousand people who wanted to take a sit-in in Manama, leaving many injured. Fourteen people were killed Thursday in clashes between security forces and antigovernment demonstrators in Benghazi, Libya's second city, according to a review of local medical source. France has been criticized for failing to anticipate the changes in Tunisia and Egypt, and for being too conciliatory with the regimes of Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, while the United States were more farms.

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