The international community is moving increasingly towards sanctions against Libya. The Security Council of the United Nations, which meets on Friday will consider a draft resolution from Paris and London. The text proposes "a total embargo on arms," "sanctions," and "referral to the ICC [International Criminal Court] for crimes against humanity," said the French foreign minister, Michele Alliot-Marie on France Info.
"The situation is very serious, it is imperative that the ICC is also seized, it is a very strong signal to give," she said, adding there were "several hundred dead" but no certainty regarding the exact toll of the repression of the uprising in Libya. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen has also convened an emergency meeting of allies on the same day Libya.
"I will meet with defense ministers of the European Union to show how, pragmatically we can help those in need and reduce the impact of these events," he said. Thursday, the U.S. has clamped down against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. After several days of reserves, sharply criticized the U.S.
president, the U.S. consulted their allies to find a response to violence in the country in crisis. The Obama administration has not cut ties with the Libyan regime and William Burns, the political director of the State Department, spoke twice by telephone Thursday with Libyan Minister Musa Kusa.
But it relies heavily on cooperation with its allies. Washington wants the expulsion of Libya's Council on Human Rights UN to sanction violence in that country, said the State Department. This decision, which must be discussed in Geneva on Friday, is the first concrete retaliatory supported by the U.S.
administration. The spokesman for American diplomacy, Philip Crowley, said a decision would be taken "swiftly" on possible direct sanctions, bilateral or multilateral, against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi. The U.S. military, he added, "is fully involved in these discussions." According to a U.S.
official speaking on condition of anonymity, Washington would also support the creation of a commission of inquiry on Libya in the Council of Human Rights. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will also participate, Monday 28 February at a meeting of that body, still in Geneva. Decisions are possible on this occasion.
The White House said the United States and the world could withstand a major disruption in oil supply due to the crisis in Libya. In Paris, the French presidency issued a statement in which Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy "require" set "an immediate halt to the use of force" in Libya. Obama also contacted Thursday Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi and British Prime Minister, David Cameron.
MM. Obama and Cameron decided to "coordinate on possible multilateral measures on Libya," said Mr Cameron's office. 
"The situation is very serious, it is imperative that the ICC is also seized, it is a very strong signal to give," she said, adding there were "several hundred dead" but no certainty regarding the exact toll of the repression of the uprising in Libya. The Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen has also convened an emergency meeting of allies on the same day Libya.
"I will meet with defense ministers of the European Union to show how, pragmatically we can help those in need and reduce the impact of these events," he said. Thursday, the U.S. has clamped down against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. After several days of reserves, sharply criticized the U.S.
president, the U.S. consulted their allies to find a response to violence in the country in crisis. The Obama administration has not cut ties with the Libyan regime and William Burns, the political director of the State Department, spoke twice by telephone Thursday with Libyan Minister Musa Kusa.
But it relies heavily on cooperation with its allies. Washington wants the expulsion of Libya's Council on Human Rights UN to sanction violence in that country, said the State Department. This decision, which must be discussed in Geneva on Friday, is the first concrete retaliatory supported by the U.S.
administration. The spokesman for American diplomacy, Philip Crowley, said a decision would be taken "swiftly" on possible direct sanctions, bilateral or multilateral, against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi. The U.S. military, he added, "is fully involved in these discussions." According to a U.S.
official speaking on condition of anonymity, Washington would also support the creation of a commission of inquiry on Libya in the Council of Human Rights. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will also participate, Monday 28 February at a meeting of that body, still in Geneva. Decisions are possible on this occasion.
The White House said the United States and the world could withstand a major disruption in oil supply due to the crisis in Libya. In Paris, the French presidency issued a statement in which Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy "require" set "an immediate halt to the use of force" in Libya. Obama also contacted Thursday Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi and British Prime Minister, David Cameron.
MM. Obama and Cameron decided to "coordinate on possible multilateral measures on Libya," said Mr Cameron's office.
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