Monday, March 28, 2011

NATO no-fly zone controls on Libya

The Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreed to take over the no-fly zone in the sky of Libya, to prevent aircraft flying Moammar Gadhafi and thus protect civilians, but said that so far no attack ground targets, which remain in the hands of the international coalition. "We decided to implement the ban on overflight zone in Libya," said the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

A coalition led by the United States, Britain and France is six days of implementing the no-fly zone, decided by the Security Council of the UN (United Nations), to prevent attack aircraft Gadhafi their opponents and civilians. The 15 members of the Security Council held a balance of military intervention in Libya and heard a report on the subject by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The secretary said that the Libyan Government has violated the 1973 resolution, which orders an immediate end to hostilities and impose a no-fly zone over the country. According to Ban, Tripoli repeatedly violated the resolution because continued Gadhafi's aircraft in flight and attacked civilian opponents.

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