Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Paris fails to convince its partners to intervene in Libya

Westerners and Russians, meeting within the G8, have spread to Paris Tuesday, March 15 their divisions on a possible military intervention, defended by France, to curb the cons-offensive in Libya Muammar Gaddafi. Chair of the G8, France, appeared little support from Britain, failed to convince its partners of the great powers of emergency ahead of a UN military action against the forces Colonel Gaddafi who progress to Benghazi, a stronghold of insurgents.

The G8 ministers were content to seek new measures to the UN to "increase pressure," including economic, on Muammar Gaddafi, said Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. "The Ministers welcomed the fact that the Security Council of the United Nations urgently examine a wide range of measures to protect people against attacks by Libyan forces of Muammar Gaddafi," it has been noted in the conclusions written for the meeting.

However, the text does not mention the option of a no-fly zone. "For now, I did not believe," acknowledged Alain Juppe on Europe 1, after a working dinner the night before with his counterparts from the United States, Russia, Germany, Great Britain , Italy, Canada and Japan. He recalled that Paris and London had been "initiative" by advocating the establishment of a no-fly zone or targeted air strikes to weaken the military potential of Muammar Gaddafi.

"Gaddafi score points," he admitted. The UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul Ilah Khatib, claimed Monday in Tripoli to stop the violence and access for humanitarian organizations. These days, many towns held by the opposition, to the west and especially east of Tripoli, benefits are in the hands of forces loyal to the Libyan head of state.

Stronghold of insurgents, Benghazi could be the next target. Very advanced in the case of Libya, but few followed, France is the only country to recognize formally the National Transitional Council as the only "legitimate representative" of the Libyan people. Bruno Le Roux, a spokesman for the Socialist Group, has also "welcomed" Tuesday "the commitment of the president alongside the Libyan uprising," and found "appalling" chilly response from the EU ".

"The inertia of the international community is looking more and more to a failure to assist people in danger," said Bruno Le Roux at his weekly press briefing. "The inaction of the Security Council of the UN becomes criminal," he said.

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