Friday, March 18, 2011

Frattini: "From Italy and use bases not only full support of the UN resolution"

ROME - Ok bipartisan commission by the Defense and Foreign Affairs in the Senate and House for the resolution empowering the government to act under the UN resolution on Libya. The first green light by Parliament comes with the absence of senators in the League, which has expressed some doubt, and IDV.

A Montecitorio the script is repeated (the Northern League is absent and the IDV abstains), with the addition of so-called "responsible". "Logistical problems - said the leader Sardelli - many of our MPs are out of office, and then today they were not in Rome." The opposition, however, the question of a'''desertion remains ...".

In view of the deadlock in the government reshuffle that would see the entry of some leaked from Fli and IDV executive. Italy will be involved actively 'implementing the UN resolution, authorizing "the use of its bases and not just," Frattini said, referring to the Minister of Defence with La Russa, after the Council of Ministers dedicated to the extraordinary crisis in Libya, which gave the ok to support actions that will be decided by the international community, despite the doubts leaked by Carroccio.

In Brussels, NATO announced that continues, and indeed has accelerated the military planning of an intervention. Chiusa 's embassy in Tripoli. "We share fully the UN resolution," said Frattini, announcing the first concrete consequence of this accession: the closure of the Italian Embassy in Tripoli, where staff are already in flight to return home.

"It 's a measure consistent with the sharing and Italian with the implementation of this resolution - continued the Minister - and asked Turkey, which he accepted, to take care of our interests in Libya." Rome continues to have relations with the Transitional National Council of Benghazi, a city where the Italian consulate remains open.

The "active" participation in the UN resolution, then said Frattini, also aims to "highlight the absolute loyalty of Italy to the Atlantic and European Union perspective." From Rome, meanwhile, will reach humanitarian aid to the Benghazi in Libya by sea, started a second ship, which should arrive in the country in the coming hours, probably tomorrow morning.

Excluding intervention by land. Italy is therefore ready for any intervention that does not involve the presence of Italian troops on Libyan soil, so it's available to air missions to enforce the 'no-fly zone'. A line is also shared by the opposition in Parliament, is against the PRC, the PRC and also left the CGIL, which does not want the use of "instruments of war." Concerns have been expressed by the Northern League: "The Northern League feels close to the position of Germany (who abstained on the United Nations 'no-fly zone', ed)," said Bossi, according to what has been learned.

And the senators leaguers have deserted the Senate's vote, along with Italy of Values. "Hold your fire will not hold." The situation could evolve very quickly: "The ceasefire will not hold," Frattini said: "In Libya there will be attacks." But the implementation of a no-fly zone can not be alien to NATO, "because three or four countries alone can not exert tighter controls the area," said Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa, adding that the government will ask the Rooms for permission to join the coalition of the willing, for Libya, which should join France, Britain, the United States and some Arab countries, and could be activated, according to La Russa, specifically in less time.

Italy has been given the availability of seven military bases, "with no restrictive limit for intervention, when it seems necessary to enforce the UN resolution" and ensure the protection of citizens. These Amendola, Gioia del Colle, Sigonella, Aviano, Trapani, Pantelleria and Decimomannu: some, says La Russa, has already been claimed by the British and Americans.

"We have strong ability to neutralize the radar of possible opponents, and this could be our own choice: we can intervene in any way," said La Russa. But any decision will be made according to the Quirinale and "Parliament will be fully informed in deciding who intends to take," assures Silvio Berlusconi.

PD: Are you ready to support the active role of our country. Pd comes from the willingness to consider the initiatives being considered: "Within the limits of the UN resolution we are ready to support the active role of Italy," said Pierluigi Bersani. "The government - said the secretary of the Democratic Party - knows our availability, we ask only that at this time there are improvised and contradictory statements.

We need to talk with other available countries and with NATO. Neither does the strategist, this is a serious matter. " Massimo D'Alema stressed the need to act within the shield of the Atlantic Alliance: "We are at risk of retaliation, precise, and" we must ask that you activate a protection of NATO, an essential safety net.

"At which point even Minister Frattini said in agreement.

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