There 's been disappointed with the wait for a possible new interview with Muammar Gaddafi. Between the envoys of the international media present in Tripoli was a rumor today that a meeting between the Libyan leader, and some journalists, but hope to know the answer to the colonel's proposal for mediation launched today from the front of the rebels remained such.
This morning the head of the provisional National Council of Libya, the former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel Jalil, had in fact spoken on Al Jazeera satellite television from Benghazi to announce that if Gaddafi "will leave the country within 72 hours and put an end to the bombing, we be prosecuted for his crimes.
Jalil had called then "the end of air strikes, and his resignation within the next 72 hours." Proposal also relaunched the new site of the National Council in Libya. An initiative which as said by the time Gaddafi did not reply, merely points out, in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister George Papandreou, greek, that "any attack on security and stability of Libya has forcibly security implications in Africa north, the Mediterranean and Europe.
" A silence said, perhaps, as pointed out by various rumors, the fact that behind the scenes discussions are going on between the rebels and the entourage of Colonel to reach a mediated solution to the crisis. Jalil has ruled that "direct negotiations are underway with Gaddafi" and explained that he had spoken now because "it is necessary to achieve a resolution to avoid further bloodshed." The denial of the former minister, as those arriving anonymously from the front of the scheme, but no longer appeared convincing.
Of course, even if the contacts are underway, the field continues to fight. Forces loyal to the regime have launched yet another attack against Zawiya, the strategic town located just 40 kilometers south-west of the capital Tripoli. Despite the siege of the city has been tightened further for the moment the rebels who oversee the center continue to resist.
As for the knot of Ras Lanuf oil, only in the morning was bombed at least six more times. Continues to move even international diplomacy, but by the time you go in any order and in particular the possibility of establishing a "no-fly zone" on Libya in particular does not seem to share the coolness of China and Russia.
The same week, full of high-level diplomatic meetings, could help to clarify the framework for managing to bring some results. Thursday and Friday is expected the NATO summit on Thursday the informal meeting of EU ministers in Brussels that will anticipate the extraordinary summit in Libya on Friday, the day will meet in emergency session also the foreign ministers of the Arab League.
The European Union meanwhile have agreed on an extension of sanctions on Tripoli. In the list of sanctioned entities including the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the Libyan sovereign fund, plus five other entities including the Central Bank. The Italian position was consolidated in a brief inter-ministerial meeting held in the evening at Palazzo Chigi without the presence of Silvio Berlusconi, blocked the transaction to the jaw.
"We do not exclude military action - said the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa at the end - but it certainly will not be a unilateral decision: the military option is one of several options that have been read and that was cited by some countries" but our country "since the war has never implemented a military action without the consent of international organizations." According to La Russa, who cited the example of Kosovo, the possible intervention of a military nature would therefore be considered only "possibly under the aegis of NATO and the UN." Russia has also announced that Libya have been evacuated a total of 820 civilians of various nationalities, including 277 Italians.
It said that 564 civilians were evacuated by sea and 256 by air. Were used, he said, six military aircraft and two naval vessels C130, San Giorgio and Mimbelli.
This morning the head of the provisional National Council of Libya, the former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdel Jalil, had in fact spoken on Al Jazeera satellite television from Benghazi to announce that if Gaddafi "will leave the country within 72 hours and put an end to the bombing, we be prosecuted for his crimes.
Jalil had called then "the end of air strikes, and his resignation within the next 72 hours." Proposal also relaunched the new site of the National Council in Libya. An initiative which as said by the time Gaddafi did not reply, merely points out, in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister George Papandreou, greek, that "any attack on security and stability of Libya has forcibly security implications in Africa north, the Mediterranean and Europe.
" A silence said, perhaps, as pointed out by various rumors, the fact that behind the scenes discussions are going on between the rebels and the entourage of Colonel to reach a mediated solution to the crisis. Jalil has ruled that "direct negotiations are underway with Gaddafi" and explained that he had spoken now because "it is necessary to achieve a resolution to avoid further bloodshed." The denial of the former minister, as those arriving anonymously from the front of the scheme, but no longer appeared convincing.
Of course, even if the contacts are underway, the field continues to fight. Forces loyal to the regime have launched yet another attack against Zawiya, the strategic town located just 40 kilometers south-west of the capital Tripoli. Despite the siege of the city has been tightened further for the moment the rebels who oversee the center continue to resist.
As for the knot of Ras Lanuf oil, only in the morning was bombed at least six more times. Continues to move even international diplomacy, but by the time you go in any order and in particular the possibility of establishing a "no-fly zone" on Libya in particular does not seem to share the coolness of China and Russia.
The same week, full of high-level diplomatic meetings, could help to clarify the framework for managing to bring some results. Thursday and Friday is expected the NATO summit on Thursday the informal meeting of EU ministers in Brussels that will anticipate the extraordinary summit in Libya on Friday, the day will meet in emergency session also the foreign ministers of the Arab League.
The European Union meanwhile have agreed on an extension of sanctions on Tripoli. In the list of sanctioned entities including the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the Libyan sovereign fund, plus five other entities including the Central Bank. The Italian position was consolidated in a brief inter-ministerial meeting held in the evening at Palazzo Chigi without the presence of Silvio Berlusconi, blocked the transaction to the jaw.
"We do not exclude military action - said the Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa at the end - but it certainly will not be a unilateral decision: the military option is one of several options that have been read and that was cited by some countries" but our country "since the war has never implemented a military action without the consent of international organizations." According to La Russa, who cited the example of Kosovo, the possible intervention of a military nature would therefore be considered only "possibly under the aegis of NATO and the UN." Russia has also announced that Libya have been evacuated a total of 820 civilians of various nationalities, including 277 Italians.
It said that 564 civilians were evacuated by sea and 256 by air. Were used, he said, six military aircraft and two naval vessels C130, San Giorgio and Mimbelli.
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