Sunday, February 27, 2011

Human Rights: UN recommends suspension of Libya

Account closures and travel bans on the Libyan leadership to leaders al Gaddafi? The UN Human Rights Council has unanimously recommended the suspension of Libya from the Board and ordered an investigation of violence against demonstrators in the North African country. Earlier, in the emergency meeting of the Council in Geneva on Friday renounced the entire Libyan UN Mission of leader Muammar Gaddafi.


The Human Rights Council, composed of 47 delegations of countries, condemned the level of violence, with the Gaddafi act against the protesters. Libya's final decision on the suspension, the UN General Assembly, required for a two-thirds majority. In the memorable meeting was the second secretary of the Libyan representative, Adel Schaltut to a minute of silence in honor of this revolution, "asked.

Then divided Schaltut with the Council that the entire staff of the Libyan representative of the government in Tripoli had renounced. "Young people in my country today, 100 years after the Italian Fascist invasion write today with their blood a new chapter in the history of struggle and resistance," said Schaltut the delegates of 47 Member States of the Human Rights Council.

"We in the Libyan mission to the categorically chosen to serve as representatives of the Libyan people and their free will. We represent only the Libyan people. "The Libyan ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, and have abandoned their posts, according to a Libyan diplomat in the capital abandoned their posts.

Ambassador Mohammed Salaheddine Sarem and representatives of the North African country at the Paris-based Organization of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Abdul Salem el Kallali, had resigned, said the informant. Also, the ambassador to Sweden, said the news agency AP that he resign because he is the "massacre against my own people" could not accept.

The United States announced on Friday evening sanctions against Libya. It was in the process to develop concrete steps, government spokesman Jay Carney said the White House. Details, he called it at first. Among others, the military cooperation would be terminated, the State Department put the activities of an embassy in Tripoli.

Sanctions are not the only agent that will use the United States, which closed its embassy in Libya on Friday, the spokesman added. "We do everything to put the government in Libya under pressure," said Carney. However, he called on requests from journalists again not the resignation of Gaddafi.

NATO is ready to humanitarian assistance in Libya, but plans no military action. "NATO is the situation in coordination with other international organizations to monitor very closely," said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday after a special meeting of the permanent ambassadors of the 28 NATO countries in Brussels.

Diplomats said the EU wanted to take part in the enforcement of UN sanctions, which would also apply for a no-fly zone, far as they are decided. Mrs Ashton said the establishment of a zone is among the topics to talk about this.

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