Saturday, March 26, 2011

Putin and B. together to save Gaddafi

In Washington, Brussels, Moscow international diplomacy continues to search for hours without success, a way out of the Libyan crisis. It arrives in the evening the agreement on command will move to NATO. Yesterday, however, the epicenter of the consultations was Brussels, where Heads of State and Government of the 27 EU countries have launched a summit dedicated, on paper, to economic governance, but in fact dominated by the war in Libya.

The wait is focused on the outcome of bilateral meetings with a face-to-face meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. And the confessionals on the sidelines of the summit could also help us understand what it has sent into crisis in recent days, the Berluskozysmo, under the strong communion of love between the Italian prime minister and the president of France, now divided on everything Gaddafi Born even Bulgarians and Parmalat.

Meanwhile, the North Atlantic Council continued its consultations to reach a consensus on how and when entrusting the leadership of the Alliance military, eventually reached with Turkey's ok, cumbersome Allied (mainly American) between the West and the Arab world. And at the UN Headquarters in New York where the UN Security Council met late into the night (Italian time), its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has scolded the Allies, demanding that "speak with one voice" .

It follows also a temptation to negotiate with Gaddafi, a way of mediation: to suggest, is Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is out of the coalition of the willing and the UN Security Council abstained on Resolution 1973. The idea of mediation also tickles the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, sets out a strategy in two steps: first, that the Libyan leader Gaddafi stop its offensive against the insurgents Cyrenaica; second The launch of negotiations to allow the crisis.

It almost seems that "Silvio" projects a table of friends to him, "Vladimir" and the Colonel. And there are already those who make assumptions about where to find a safe exile for the Libyan leader. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet proposes the necessary parallel between military intervention and political project "to build a different future of the Libyan people." Longuet adds that the international community is not "control of the situation" and that military action is not a deadline: "We want to encourage the emergence of a Libyan dialogue." While diplomacy is slow progress, the military action continues on the ground, in the heavens, the sea.

The army of Gaddafi denounces "civilian casualties" in the coalition raid carried out mainly from France. The Gaddafi loyalists attempting to lunge to measure, in whose port blocked foreign workers take to flight from the country, and UNICEF calls for humanitarian corridor: even children - complaint - are victims of the conflict.

In the Italian Parliament approved a resolution is a document that the majority of the opposition in part contradictory, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini warned that "the divisions weaken the position of Italy" and insists that "we are not there to make the war ". And even the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, believes "an important convergence in Parliament" and points out that Italy is moving in the UN Charter.

The EU and NATO meetings in Brussels yesterday and today will be followed up, and maybe an epilogue in London on Tuesday, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with European colleagues. The United States was in a hurry to ease their role in this war and have frowned upon the transfer of military responsibilities to the Atlantic Alliance: U.S.

President Barack Obama wants to defuse the controversy over the cost, especially economic, for the moment, the involvement U.S. in this conflict (the estimated one billion dollars so far). Rear Admiral Rinaldo Veri took over as head of NATO's naval operations in the Mediterranean to give effect to the embargo on arms sales and transfer of mercenaries in Libya in its headquarters Nisida, off Naples, Real expects, however, that his fleet, for the moment of unity Italian, French, Greek, Turkish, American and Canadian, will receive reinforcements from other countries appropriate.

Done by the newspaper of March 25, 2011

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