ROME - After the United States has broken through the inertia, the mouth of Obama threatening possible military intervention to free Libya from the heel of Gaddafi, Italy also tries to make its voice heard against the regime in Tripoli. An appeal to end the fighting arrived this morning by President Giorgio Napolitano.
"Violence against the Libyan people can not be tolerated. Colonel Gaddafi must stop all military action against his own people," said the head of state speaking in Geneva at the Human Rights Council for the United Nations. The problem, then stated Napolitano, is that there is "an attitude of open defiance to the international community of Colonel Gaddafi, a provocation against the protagonists of international life that have had enough with the bombing, no more repression." The President of the Republic did not hide his concern: "I fear that Libya will need to deal with unforeseen developments at present." "The situation - he added - is very different from that of Egypt where the military is an institution with its own autonomy.
There, when the army was deployed with the population, the power of political leadership has collapsed ". For Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Italy on penalties to Libya is "using exactly what is agreed in international fora." Tremonti said that "we have applied the UN resolution and we are discussing within the European Union on other investments." At the European level is in question the possibility of extending the sanctions on Libya - for now restricted to operations directly linked Gaddafi - Libyan investments abroad to the complex.
One of the greatest risks posed by Libya and the African crisis is the freezing of SWFs. "We want to block funds to those countries," Tremonti said, "they think if they did the opposite. Think of the SWFs and if by chance a revolution says that money is ours and we want them back?. Think of the destabilizing effects" he said.
Harsh words this morning, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. "Criminal acts committed by the Libyan regime - has promised the foreign minister - will be punished by the international community." "No dialogue can ever develop - he emphasized - in the presence of serious violence and systematic violations of human rights, such as those perpetrated in recent days in Libya." For Frattini, "the appeals and decisions of the UN, Europe and the Arab League will lead to serious consequences for those who continue to violate the basic rights of people." A position of apparent firmness that does not seem entirely in keeping with the concerns expressed today by always Interior Minister Roberto Maroni.
"I hope that the March 11 Heads of State and Government European Union decides really a diplomatic offensive in these countries, not just threaten to bomb them - said the head of the Interior Ministry - because you get the opposite effect, Europe to present himself as the enemy and not as his friend, putting these people into the hands of fundamentalists, and perhaps worse, terrorists.
" Words, Maroni those dictated by the alarm immigration. "Even today, the news coming from the area - said the interior minister - have tens of thousands of desperate people who do not know where to go, what to do and how to support." As to the effect that this may have on Italy, Maroni made clear: "We hope to prevent everything, but there is a plan B and if that happens the wrath of God must be ready." On the refugee emergency, Frattini announced the beginning of the Italian humanitarian mission: a shipload of aid sailed in a day from Catania to Benghazi, while on the Tunisian side, "the team and the Ministry of Civil Defence are already in place are occurring and where to mount the curtains.
" The goal is "to help the evacuation of tens of thousands of Egyptian citizens." Meanwhile, a stance that Maroni will do some pleasure, the French Interior Minister Claude Guéant asked Italy to take on its territory Tunisian immigrants who want to get to France. 
"Violence against the Libyan people can not be tolerated. Colonel Gaddafi must stop all military action against his own people," said the head of state speaking in Geneva at the Human Rights Council for the United Nations. The problem, then stated Napolitano, is that there is "an attitude of open defiance to the international community of Colonel Gaddafi, a provocation against the protagonists of international life that have had enough with the bombing, no more repression." The President of the Republic did not hide his concern: "I fear that Libya will need to deal with unforeseen developments at present." "The situation - he added - is very different from that of Egypt where the military is an institution with its own autonomy.
There, when the army was deployed with the population, the power of political leadership has collapsed ". For Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Italy on penalties to Libya is "using exactly what is agreed in international fora." Tremonti said that "we have applied the UN resolution and we are discussing within the European Union on other investments." At the European level is in question the possibility of extending the sanctions on Libya - for now restricted to operations directly linked Gaddafi - Libyan investments abroad to the complex.
One of the greatest risks posed by Libya and the African crisis is the freezing of SWFs. "We want to block funds to those countries," Tremonti said, "they think if they did the opposite. Think of the SWFs and if by chance a revolution says that money is ours and we want them back?. Think of the destabilizing effects" he said.
Harsh words this morning, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. "Criminal acts committed by the Libyan regime - has promised the foreign minister - will be punished by the international community." "No dialogue can ever develop - he emphasized - in the presence of serious violence and systematic violations of human rights, such as those perpetrated in recent days in Libya." For Frattini, "the appeals and decisions of the UN, Europe and the Arab League will lead to serious consequences for those who continue to violate the basic rights of people." A position of apparent firmness that does not seem entirely in keeping with the concerns expressed today by always Interior Minister Roberto Maroni.
"I hope that the March 11 Heads of State and Government European Union decides really a diplomatic offensive in these countries, not just threaten to bomb them - said the head of the Interior Ministry - because you get the opposite effect, Europe to present himself as the enemy and not as his friend, putting these people into the hands of fundamentalists, and perhaps worse, terrorists.
" Words, Maroni those dictated by the alarm immigration. "Even today, the news coming from the area - said the interior minister - have tens of thousands of desperate people who do not know where to go, what to do and how to support." As to the effect that this may have on Italy, Maroni made clear: "We hope to prevent everything, but there is a plan B and if that happens the wrath of God must be ready." On the refugee emergency, Frattini announced the beginning of the Italian humanitarian mission: a shipload of aid sailed in a day from Catania to Benghazi, while on the Tunisian side, "the team and the Ministry of Civil Defence are already in place are occurring and where to mount the curtains.
" The goal is "to help the evacuation of tens of thousands of Egyptian citizens." Meanwhile, a stance that Maroni will do some pleasure, the French Interior Minister Claude Guéant asked Italy to take on its territory Tunisian immigrants who want to get to France.
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