Thursday, March 10, 2011

Gaddafi and the opposition launched the battle of diplomacy

The Leader of the Libyan opposition, Abdeljalil Moustapha, called with the international community in an interview with the German press. "If there is no international intervention, Gaddafi will destroy our country. That he does not care if people die," said the leader of the National Transitional Council (CNT) formed by the opposition to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi In an interview with Die Welt newspaper.

The former Libyan Justice Minister reaffirms his hope that established an exclusion zone designed to prevent air power to bomb the population, despite the reservations expressed by the head of European diplomacy. "A no-fly zone is what we want (...) But we do not want foreign troops in Libya," he insists as well.

The Libyan regime has promised Wednesday a reward of 410,000 dollars for the capture of Mustafa Abdeljalil. In addition, two emissaries of the National Council will be received Thursday morning by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, while another representative met with Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey.

The creation of a "National Council independent" transition, representing the cities fell into the hands of the insurgency, was announced by a spokesman on February 27. Libya, unlike Tunisia and Egypt, has no well-established institutions, or civil society, political parties and independent media.

This absence makes it difficult to identify future leaders. The foreign ministers of the EU, then the defense ministers of NATO are found Thursday in Brussels to try to find a difficult position on Libya. But the head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton on Wednesday in Strasbourg refused to commit to the actions planned to prevent the Libyan leader to crush the insurgency, reflecting divisions among European countries (21 countries of the The EU also belong to NATO).

In a joint letter to the chief diplomat of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, the British and German ministers of foreign affairs, William Hague and Guido Westerwelle believe that the crisis in "the southern neighborhood" of the Union represents a challenge of the same scale as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The two men are asking the EU to agree on a statement that "the EU and its member states will not work or will not cooperate with Gaddafi and he should resign to allow a genuine democratic transformation of the country." Muammar Gaddafi is also in the race to the emissaries. The Guide of the Libyan revolution in Cairo sent a member of his inner circle, while another sent met the foreign minister of Portugal, Luis Amado, on the eve of the meeting of EU foreign ministers dedicated to the Libya.

An emissary of Mr. Gaddafi will also hold talks Thursday morning with the Greek Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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