The European Union agreed on Friday to impose an embargo on arms sales and assets freeze and travel ban for Muammar Gaddafi and his family, as recorded by the source agency dpa German Foreign Ministry and also AFP news agency from Brussels, that reporting does not identify the source and only talk that is a diplomatic source.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany, the measure of punishment was consensus among the twenty-seven in response to Libya's brutal crackdown on opponents, and will be formally enacted in early next week. The freezing of assets and prohibition of entry into the EU and were imposed several weeks ago Tunisian leader Ben Ali and his associates.
Few hours before this decision was made public in Europe, the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, had urged the EU to adopt sanctions against the regime of Gaddafi. Argued that events in Libya have entered a new phase, which required action by the international community. "The time for appeal has ended, now we must act," said Westerwelle, who met separately this morning with their counterparts in Morocco, Moroccan FM, and Italian, Franco Frattini.
The German foreign minister and vice chancellor of Europe's largest economy said that you can not rule out further pressure and punishment measures against the Libyan regime. He recalled that the Security Council of the UN in New York today will consider new sanctions against Tripoli at the behest of the German government.
For its part, the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, has called on Friday to implement the sanctions against Libya as effective as possible in terms of "immediacy" but warned that the EU's priority is to evacuate Europeans. 
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany, the measure of punishment was consensus among the twenty-seven in response to Libya's brutal crackdown on opponents, and will be formally enacted in early next week. The freezing of assets and prohibition of entry into the EU and were imposed several weeks ago Tunisian leader Ben Ali and his associates.
Few hours before this decision was made public in Europe, the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, had urged the EU to adopt sanctions against the regime of Gaddafi. Argued that events in Libya have entered a new phase, which required action by the international community. "The time for appeal has ended, now we must act," said Westerwelle, who met separately this morning with their counterparts in Morocco, Moroccan FM, and Italian, Franco Frattini.
The German foreign minister and vice chancellor of Europe's largest economy said that you can not rule out further pressure and punishment measures against the Libyan regime. He recalled that the Security Council of the UN in New York today will consider new sanctions against Tripoli at the behest of the German government.
For its part, the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, has called on Friday to implement the sanctions against Libya as effective as possible in terms of "immediacy" but warned that the EU's priority is to evacuate Europeans.
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