Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The United Nations announced a "independent international investigation"

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today called an "independent international investigation" into the violence in Libya and requested the "immediate stop to the serious human rights violations made by the Libyan authorities". The UN Security Council will meet in emergency session behind closed doors to the Italian 15 hours today, 21 in New York, to discuss the crisis in Libya has announced the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to room for a brief visit to Los Angeles.

The meeting of the UN decision was prompted Libyan Deputy Ambassador to the UN headquarters, Ibrahim Dabbashi, who like many other diplomats of the North African country has distanced itself from the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Dabbashi has even asked Gaddafi to "leave power as soon as possible" and called on the international community to take steps to prevent the Libyan leader "takes refuge in a third country." Ban had just had a conversation with the same Gaddafi about 40 minutes, during which he had given notice to end the harsh repression of the protests, which was defined as "outraged" at first.

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