Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Libya: Paris is sending liaison officers to insurgent

After an interview with Nicolas Sarkozy, Mr. Abdeljalil delivered a speech in which he welcomed that France supported the insurgents "from the start." He also called Nicolas Sarkozy to go to Benghazi, the stronghold of insurgents. "We'll help you," said Nicolas Sarkozy, according to the presidency. "How do the English, there are military elements who are with our diplomatic representative of the NLC", it was assured of the same source, insisting that it had "absolutely nothing to do with the troops "on the ground.

Subsequently, Mr. Sarkozy confirmed increased international air raids in the coming days. "They also require that humanitarian assistance continues to grow," continued the president, adding that there was currently "humanitarian projects" for Misrata "not yet formalized." But "we must hurry" and it may "be in the week," she added.

For several days, the humanitarian situation is very worrying Misrata: after six weeks of bombing, food, medicines and services begin to fail and the people to despair (read "A Misrata, a humanitarian convoy knows' the hell "). The spokesman of the French government, Baroin, announced that "a small number of liaison officers," without doubt "some units" will be deployed with the rebels, while excluding again sending troops ground combat.

"The position of France is very simple: we do not combat troops on the ground in any way and in any form whatsoever," he argued. We do not take initiative to request a new resolution the Security Council. The French position is stable and unchanged on this issue of implementation of resolution 1973.

" Mr. Baroin did not want to vote for other coalition countries. The National Transitional Council was received for the third time by President Sarkozy, but this was the first for its president, Mustafa Abdeljalil. Two other Council members, one from Benghazi, Tobruk the other (eastern Libya), were also present, and Ali Essaoui charge of international relations within the Council.

For its part, the Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa, announced Wednesday that Rome would take ten military instructors available to the Libyan National Transitional Council (CNT), a body of rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi. "This decision was taken after an interview [telephone] the Chairman, [Silvio] Berlusconi and British Prime Minister, David Cameron," he said.

"Italy and England agree that he should lead the rebels: they are young people willing to fight for their cause, but they lack the necessary capabilities and therefore we will go where there are the security conditions necessary to provide our expertise and enable them to face an army that is her business, "he said.

The United Kingdom, which together with France, about half of the coalition air strikes against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, has also promised to send military advisers to help the LSC to improve its military and logistics . On the BBC, the British foreign minister, William Hague has insisted that the shipment of military advisers was done within the strict framework of UN resolution 1973, which authorized air strikes in Libya.

"This is not a British combat forces leave. There will be no ground invasion of Libya," said Mr Hague, insisting that military advisers "are not there to result of forces, arm forces or take part in the fighting. " More skeptical, many British newspapers point out that "Vietnam has begun with the dispatch of military advisers." For its part, the U.S.

president, Barack Obama, supports the decision of the Allies to send military advisers in Libya but does not plan to deploy ground troops. "The president (...) supports this decision and hopes and believes it will help the opposition," said Wednesday's press spokesman of the White House, Jay Carney, the presidential plane Air Force One, which was heading to California.

"But that does not change the president's policy which is not to send American troops on the ground," said Jay Carney.

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