Barack Obama broke his silence Wednesday, February 23, on Libya, calling the world to unite against the violence in the country, giving the kickoff of a U.S. diplomatic effort increased. "The suffering and the bloodshed are outrageous and unacceptable," he told the White House the president of the United States, which was the first statement about the violence in Libya since the crisis began.
On Wednesday, the Libyan regime seemed to have lost control of large parts of the east, the Egyptian border until Ajdabiya further west, to Tobruk, Derna and Benghazi. In the capital, despite calls from Gaddafi, only dozens of protesters waved green flags and portraits of the leader, in front of some policemen and plainclothes men armed with Kalashnikovs.
On Thursday, the White House said that Barack Obama call during the day (at night, French time) Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron to coordinate their actions to stop the repression. "They will discuss Libya and the different options," said the spokesman of the White House, Jay Carney, who declined to give details of the actions envisaged by Washington against a backdrop of calls for sanctions against the Libyan regime and the establishment of an air exclusion zone over the country.
Mr. Obama has solemnly warned that the regime of Muammar Gaddafi would have to account for his actions. "It must be held accountable for its inability to meet its responsibilities, and must face the consequences arising from the continuing violations of human rights," he said. He also announced that Hillary Clinton's chief of diplomacy, would participate, Monday, Feb.
28, at a ministerial level meeting of the Council of Human Rights of the UN in Geneva, the opportunity for it to multiply contacts with foreign counterparts on Libya. "Amid such a situation," said Obama, "it is imperative that nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice and that's what we work." The U.S.
president, who began to be criticized in the United States for its reaction to events deemed too measured, also alluded to the inflammatory speech delivered yesterday by Colonel Gaddafi. He denounced, without naming the dictator, "the threats and orders to fire on peaceful demonstrators, and new penalties against the Libyan people." The leader of Tripoli on Tuesday protesters had compared to "rats" to be "captured".
Several European leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, head, had expressed dismay at the result of these remarks, while U.S. officials refused to comment on the speech. Like Clinton before him, Barack Obama has also stressed that the safety of Americans present in Libya - about six hundred and fifty citizens, and about fifty diplomats and members of their families - was the "first priority" of the administration. 
On Wednesday, the Libyan regime seemed to have lost control of large parts of the east, the Egyptian border until Ajdabiya further west, to Tobruk, Derna and Benghazi. In the capital, despite calls from Gaddafi, only dozens of protesters waved green flags and portraits of the leader, in front of some policemen and plainclothes men armed with Kalashnikovs.
On Thursday, the White House said that Barack Obama call during the day (at night, French time) Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron to coordinate their actions to stop the repression. "They will discuss Libya and the different options," said the spokesman of the White House, Jay Carney, who declined to give details of the actions envisaged by Washington against a backdrop of calls for sanctions against the Libyan regime and the establishment of an air exclusion zone over the country.
Mr. Obama has solemnly warned that the regime of Muammar Gaddafi would have to account for his actions. "It must be held accountable for its inability to meet its responsibilities, and must face the consequences arising from the continuing violations of human rights," he said. He also announced that Hillary Clinton's chief of diplomacy, would participate, Monday, Feb.
28, at a ministerial level meeting of the Council of Human Rights of the UN in Geneva, the opportunity for it to multiply contacts with foreign counterparts on Libya. "Amid such a situation," said Obama, "it is imperative that nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice and that's what we work." The U.S.
president, who began to be criticized in the United States for its reaction to events deemed too measured, also alluded to the inflammatory speech delivered yesterday by Colonel Gaddafi. He denounced, without naming the dictator, "the threats and orders to fire on peaceful demonstrators, and new penalties against the Libyan people." The leader of Tripoli on Tuesday protesters had compared to "rats" to be "captured".
Several European leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, head, had expressed dismay at the result of these remarks, while U.S. officials refused to comment on the speech. Like Clinton before him, Barack Obama has also stressed that the safety of Americans present in Libya - about six hundred and fifty citizens, and about fifty diplomats and members of their families - was the "first priority" of the administration.
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