Organizations The United Nations asked on Sunday, an "urgent access" to the victims of bombings by the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in the city of Misrata, 150 km east of Tripoli. In a statement, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, "observes that civilians bear the brunt of the violence and called for an immediate halt to the disproportionate use of force and indiscriminate attacks against targets Civil by the government.
" Ban Ki-moon "stresses that the perpetrators of violations of international humanitarian law or of serious crimes must answer for their actions." "Humanitarian agencies need access urgent now," said Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, in a statement.
"People are dying and wounded and need immediate help. I urge the authorities to allow access without delay to enable humanitarian workers to save lives," says Amos. The Red Crescent reported that in Benghazi Misrata "is attacked by government forces and the Libyan Red Crescent attempts to send ambulances from Tripoli to recover the dead and wounded," said a statement from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
A Misrata, third largest city, a resident and an insurgent said by telephone from the town that was controlled by the insurgency, despite a government offensive with heavy weapons. "The tanks shoot shells at the city center," said the resident. In a statement, Ms. Amos said he was "very concerned about what is happening in western Libya." Currently visiting at the border between Tunisia and Libya, facing a massive influx of refugees, she also thanked the Tunisian authorities for having allowed more than 100,000 people to flee and spend Libya to Tunisia, where a Airlift has been established since Thursday to repatriate them to their country.
The influx of refugees at the border was reduced to a few hundred per day, twenty miles cons last week. The UN Secretary General has appointed Abdelilah Al Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister, the task of "initiate urgent consultations with the authorities in Tripoli and the region on humanitarian hesitation." Ban Ki-moon held talks in the day with the Libyan foreign minister, Musa Kusa, directing the authorities in Tripoli to "assume the responsibility that is theirs to protect their citizens and reflect the aspirations legitimate Libyan people to live in dignity and peace.
" In Washington, calls for military support to rebels opposed to the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi multiply. At this stage, the Obama administration is cautious, considering "all options", including military, and reiterating its call on departure of Colonel Gaddafi. But Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, acknowledged this week that the U.S.
was still "far from a decision" on whether to introduce a no-fly zone in Libya. Sunday, the pressure rose a notch on President Barack Obama. Like the influential Republican Senator John McCain, for whom a no-fly zone would help to "send a signal of strength to the Libyan leader, Senator John Kerry said that such a zone would be declared to prevent Libyan aviation to attack rebels and civilians.
"The last thing we want is a military intervention, but I do not consider that the exclusion area constitutes a" CNN said Kerry, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate. "We do not have troops on the ground, they do not want [our] troops on the ground," he agreed, but said there were other ways to demonstrate American power to bend Muammar Gaddafi.
Four aircraft C-130 Americans evacuate refugees from the Egyptians to the Tunisian border, and two warships are in the Mediterranean with 1,200 marines on board. Gaddafi's forces "will not stop turning the question in their minds, 'what can they do other" than providing humanitarian aid, said Senator Kerry.
"I guess that many weapons will find their way [to Libya] one way or another in coming weeks," he added, without elaborating. The former Democratic governor of New Mexico and near the Clinton administration, Bill Richardson, was more direct in arguing Sunday that it was time to "secretly arming the rebels." As the former national security adviser to George W.
Bush, Stephen Hadley, to Washington to become more involved, including arming the insurgents, who have lost ground Sunday against an offensive-cons and air strikes by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi. 
" Ban Ki-moon "stresses that the perpetrators of violations of international humanitarian law or of serious crimes must answer for their actions." "Humanitarian agencies need access urgent now," said Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos, in a statement.
"People are dying and wounded and need immediate help. I urge the authorities to allow access without delay to enable humanitarian workers to save lives," says Amos. The Red Crescent reported that in Benghazi Misrata "is attacked by government forces and the Libyan Red Crescent attempts to send ambulances from Tripoli to recover the dead and wounded," said a statement from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
A Misrata, third largest city, a resident and an insurgent said by telephone from the town that was controlled by the insurgency, despite a government offensive with heavy weapons. "The tanks shoot shells at the city center," said the resident. In a statement, Ms. Amos said he was "very concerned about what is happening in western Libya." Currently visiting at the border between Tunisia and Libya, facing a massive influx of refugees, she also thanked the Tunisian authorities for having allowed more than 100,000 people to flee and spend Libya to Tunisia, where a Airlift has been established since Thursday to repatriate them to their country.
The influx of refugees at the border was reduced to a few hundred per day, twenty miles cons last week. The UN Secretary General has appointed Abdelilah Al Khatib, a former Jordanian foreign minister, the task of "initiate urgent consultations with the authorities in Tripoli and the region on humanitarian hesitation." Ban Ki-moon held talks in the day with the Libyan foreign minister, Musa Kusa, directing the authorities in Tripoli to "assume the responsibility that is theirs to protect their citizens and reflect the aspirations legitimate Libyan people to live in dignity and peace.
" In Washington, calls for military support to rebels opposed to the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi multiply. At this stage, the Obama administration is cautious, considering "all options", including military, and reiterating its call on departure of Colonel Gaddafi. But Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, acknowledged this week that the U.S.
was still "far from a decision" on whether to introduce a no-fly zone in Libya. Sunday, the pressure rose a notch on President Barack Obama. Like the influential Republican Senator John McCain, for whom a no-fly zone would help to "send a signal of strength to the Libyan leader, Senator John Kerry said that such a zone would be declared to prevent Libyan aviation to attack rebels and civilians.
"The last thing we want is a military intervention, but I do not consider that the exclusion area constitutes a" CNN said Kerry, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Senate. "We do not have troops on the ground, they do not want [our] troops on the ground," he agreed, but said there were other ways to demonstrate American power to bend Muammar Gaddafi.
Four aircraft C-130 Americans evacuate refugees from the Egyptians to the Tunisian border, and two warships are in the Mediterranean with 1,200 marines on board. Gaddafi's forces "will not stop turning the question in their minds, 'what can they do other" than providing humanitarian aid, said Senator Kerry.
"I guess that many weapons will find their way [to Libya] one way or another in coming weeks," he added, without elaborating. The former Democratic governor of New Mexico and near the Clinton administration, Bill Richardson, was more direct in arguing Sunday that it was time to "secretly arming the rebels." As the former national security adviser to George W.
Bush, Stephen Hadley, to Washington to become more involved, including arming the insurgents, who have lost ground Sunday against an offensive-cons and air strikes by forces loyal to Colonel Qaddafi.
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