Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Around 60 Spanish remain out of Libya

Madrid .- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that 60 Spanish have yet to leave Libya on the advice of the department to leave the country after the bombing ordered by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi to stop the protesters calling for his resignation. About 160 citizens, of the 300 that make up the Spanish colony in Libya, have returned to Madrid.

The 60 who still have not are waiting to catch a flight. Some of them wait in the airport of the capital, where they are assisted by an embassy official. The remaining 80, mostly family members of Hispanic marriages and Libyan, have informed the Embassy of Spain in Tripoli who want to stay in the country, according Affairs.

The embassy has been recommended extreme caution and avoid travel. Much of the Spanish colony comprised of the workers in Libya, Repsol YPF, which began to be evacuated on Monday. The only company that has direct flight from Madrid Tripoli Libyan Airways, which operates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Other exits are through Rome and Morocco. Foreign recalls on its website (www. MAEC.'s) Phone contact with the Embassy - (218) (21) 362 00 51/52- and consular emergency, (218) 913 203 904 -. The situation in the North African country has been exacerbated after Libyan military planes bombed yesterday afternoon to demonstrators who have been asking for days to overthrow Gadhafi, who has announced that will do everything possible to stay in power.

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