Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Security Council decides today whether sanctions Gaddafi

New York .- The Security Council UN meets on Friday to discuss the deteriorating situation in Libya and discuss the possibility of imposing sanctions on the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Efe said diplomatic sources. Those same sources said that it is expected that the same meeting a representative of the United Nations Secretariat report to the 15 members of the highest international security developments in Morocco.

"The Council considers a wide range of options, without discarding any of them. Given the urgency of the situation, we hope that members can discuss specific options when they meet tomorrow," said one Western diplomat. United Kingdom and France are two countries that have shown interest to tighten the positions of the Security Council in relation to the Libyan regime.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday in a telephone conversation with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, that "concrete measures are needed" after the sentence issued by the Council last Tuesday. Sarkozy said it was necessary to "allow immediate access by humanitarian aid and punish the perpetrators of violence against Libyan civilians," according to presidential gala.

Moreover, according to diplomatic sources, China and Russia have been reluctant to adopt measures that represent an interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country and may represent a precedent for future crises. Gaddafi today made an appeal to the people to fight the rebels, having stepped up control of part of the country, are at the gates of Tripoli.

In a telephone message relayed simultaneously by the three television Libyan regime leader has again accused the protesters of being "young crazy and drugged, manipulated by foreign services and serve to Al Qaeda and Bin Laden." The bloody attacks against the demonstrators are continuing, while the rebellion has spread west and south of the country where new towns have fallen into the hands of those who oppose the dictatorial regime of Gaddafi.

In the early hours of Thursday, one of the brigades loyal to Colonel Qaddafi launched an attack with heavy weapons against the rebels in the town of Zouiya, about 100 kilometers from the capital, causing a hundred dead and dozens injured.

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