Monday, March 28, 2011

Libya, Italy and France, fighting a duel to measure and Ajdabiya

ROME - The continuing battle between Italy and France on the diplomatic front, while fighting continues in Libya. After days of tough negotiations, only Paris has given the command of NATO mission in Libya, which should be ratified on Sunday evening. Silvio Berlusconi expressed satisfaction, but from Brussels Nicolas Sarkozy raises, announcing "a political and diplomatic common with David Cameron that Britain and France - hopefully along with Germany - will present at the summit of foreign ministers of the coalition on Tuesday in London .

News greeted with surprise from Rome, where the Foreign Ministry noted that "Italy has his own ideas and proposals to accompany the process, managed by the Libyans, for the birth of a new Libya united and democratic" and that "it talk with our partners in the appropriate, already in London on Tuesday.

" On the ground, meanwhile, continued clashes in Misurata and Ajdabiya: according to the rebels there are more than 8,000 dead and the UN Secretary-General, in turn, has warned about the risk of an exodus of 250,000 refugees. NATO mission will last three months. NATO will assume command of all military operations in Libya, not only with regard to the no-fly zone, but also for all military actions against ground targets, to ensure compliance with the resolution number 1973 of the Security Council UN.

The mission, said the spokeswoman Oana Lungescu, in principle, is scheduled to have a duration of "three months", but can be further extended or, if appropriate, also abbreviated as necessary. The command of NATO operations in Libya will be hired by the Canadian General Charles Bouchard.

You fight to Ajdabiya and measured. On the seventh day of air raids and missile for the coalition forces engaged in Libya, British and French fighter aircraft hit the ground forces of Gaddafi in the strategic eastern city of Ajdabiya in Cyrenaica. Here, in the evening, the rebels managed to enter through the east gate of the city, in the hands of forces loyal to Colonel, reports Al Jazeera.

The rinconquista of the city by the insurgents would mark an important point in their favor and the raid shows that Westerners are actually helping on the ground. It also fights to measure, the third largest city in the country, where the forces of Colonel Gaddafi have struck the city with the fire of the tank, trying to get into town, to prevent the raids of the coalition ally.

In the clashes, said a medical source quoted by the Telegraph, at least 109 people were killed and wounded over 1300. Meanwhile, the Libyan authorities ostentatious security, claiming to have "large amounts of fuel, and denied the rumors of rationing circulated in Tripoli and led to long queues at gas stations.

The European Union said it was ready last night to block all income derived from oil and gas regime of Muammar Gaddafi, in order to deprive it of financial resources to recruit mercenaries. Gaddafi regime: yes to plan for the African Union to stop hostilities. We continue to fight, but there are signs of dialogue by the Libyan regime of Gaddafi: The Libyan government has, in fact, said to be available and "ready to implement the roadmap proposed by the African Union to end the hostilities" .

Pentagon: reduced ability to command of the rais. The ability to control Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, "there has been much weakened," as well as the ability to support its troops on the ground, so that the Libyan leader "is arming" volunteers: this is the guide to the Pentagon by Vice Admiral William Gortney, which stated that the attacks by the coalition forces have "significantly reduced" the ability to command of Colonel.

Gortney added that U.S. forces are ready to cede control to NATO with regard to the enforcement of the no-fly-zone, but will continue to have the command of operations for attacks on ground forces to protect civilians until an agreement on the handover will not be achieved. 153 aerial sorties in the last 24 hours.

The budget of the last hours of operations is 16 Tomahawk missiles and 153 air sorties. Mission objectives are the artillery, ground forces and command and control. The operations of the aircraft also took part in Qatar, which "flew over the territory of Libya, our sister" as part of the multinational coalition to enforce the 'no-fly zone' authorized by the Security Council of the United Nations.

Qatar has thus become the first Arab state to take part in practice for military intervention against the regime of Gaddafi. Obama will soon explain mission objectives. President Obama, faced with a public rather cold on the American involvement in the mission in Libya, will address the American people "in the near future" to explain the objectives of the multinational mission in Libya, and the reasons why it considered it was right to intervene militarily.

Obama contacted tele-conference with the leaders of both houses of Congress and several other prominent parliamentarians to update them on developments in the Libyan operation: these are days that Congress is pushing to have clarity.

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