Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Libya, meets the group ContattoOnu: 3.6 million people in danger

Demands for the resignation of Muammar Gaddafi and decided on a temporary funding mechanism to the National Council transitional Libya. "To provide the CNT and the international community a way to manage resources for the needs of short-term financial and structural needs of the country." These decisions - sent in an official statement - at the end of the first formal meeting in Qatar of the Contact Group on Libya, created last March 29.

Present a score of foreign ministers of the international coalition - including Franco Frattini - the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the representatives of the African Union, Arab League and the Organization for Islamic Conference. This time will also give the floor to the representatives of the Transitional National Council of Libya, who have distanced themselves from the presence - the first officer after fleeing to Britain - the former Foreign Minister of Gaddafi, Moussa Kuss.

One of the figures on which you point to a possible mediation. And after the meeting, the foreign ministry also said that the Italian delegation will meet Kuss. "We do not have any kind of contact," said the spokesman Maurizio Massari. Tonight, however, the French Presidency has announced a meeting between President Nicolas Sarkozy Elysée and the british prime minister David Cameron, to discuss the situation in Libya.

The meeting comes after yesterday's meeting (read yesterday's news) between the Foreign Ministers of the European Union which has established new penalties for the Libyan regime. The Contact Group will meet again in Rome in the first week of May. No bombing, but weapons to the rebels: the Italian proposals to the conference.

"Forget any suggestion of intervention by troops on the ground," said foreign ministry spokesperson, Maurizio Massari. From Italy, Umberto Bossi echoed: "Our Constitution says we can not bomb." But the leader of the League Please add a tip for our spokesman in Doha, which have recognized the CNT as a partner in a past official meeting at the Foreign Ministry.

"I would be more cautious," he said, "We have a problem: oil and gas. So we have to deal with who wins. " Italy still leads the conference proposals. How to "put the rebels to defend the Libyans in conditions", with "material support for self-defense and intelligence and communications." "Non-lethal tools, such as those that Britain has already begun to provide to the insurgents.

E 'agree Tamim bin Hamad bin Sheikh Khalifa al-Thani, Crown Prince of Qatar, who opened the meeting of the Group. While Ali Al Isawia, Foreign Minister of the CNT, had just told reporters: "Getting weapons is not our priority." But few people see the situation Libyan Doha a "military solution".

Germany has said it is ready to support military action but, in agreement with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of NATO, it is hoped that the meeting "will facilitate a political solution." Italy also has proposed using part of the Libyan regime's assets frozen by the UN to help the rebels.

Funds will come from savings of various bodies, but not the personal fortunes of Gaddafi. E 'alarm about the humanitarian situation in Libya. More than three million people in the country who need help. The data is reported by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Today, meanwhile, two loud explosions were heard in Tripoli, perhaps by a NATO raid.

Certainly an ammunition dump was blown up in the capital by the pilots of the Alliance, while the forces of Colonel worked on new bombing measured. According to 'Human Rights Watch', the last month of the victims of clashes in the city would be at least 250. To evacuate the citizens has been prepared vessel of the International Organization for Migration.

The ship is berthed in the port of Benghazi and, after loading tons of food and aid to reach the besieged city past six weeks. Even the European Union decided today to allocate 10 million euro for the evacuation of foreign nationals and their return, as more and landed in Benghazi is a French government plane carrying 10 tons of medical supplies and members of various organizations government.

Were discharged today, in addition, two of the 25 Libyan nationals injured and hospitalized in different structures of Milan. Now, as agreed, will be repatriated, while continuing specialist care for others. The members of the CNT present in Doha have sought a solution to the plight of civilians and Libya have suggested a trade to the countries at the conference: a half billion of humanitarian aid in exchange for oil supplies from Libya.

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