Tuesday, March 1, 2011

EU adopts sanctions: air attacks on ammunition depots in the east of Libya

In Libya, Gaddafi, leader in the fight against the insurgents has again entered the Air Force. Agencies quoted eyewitnesses, the bombing of ammunition depots in the East and the shooting down of a fighter plane near Misrata marked. The crew of the aircraft that had fired on a radio station near the town of Misrata, had been captured.

On Monday there were further clashes between rebels and troops loyal Gaddafi. Despite the air strikes is discontinuing the federal government plans to impose a no-fly zone over Libya. The reason given for this include the fact that Libya's southern neighbor Sudan, a military intervention such as NATO would not accept.


Westerwelle met at the headquarters of the UN in Geneva with his other colleagues Clinton (America) and Frattini (Italy). They considered severe financial penalties. Westerwelle demanded that two months no money will be transferred to Libya, even for the payment of oil bills. The EU imposed sanctions on Monday against the Libyan leadership.

According to the EU Commission in the country about 100,000 people are refugees, most of them on the road towards Egypt and Tunisia. Gaddafi has since last week, lost control of the east of the country and fight from the capital Tripoli to his power. The ambassadors of EU Member States agreed on Monday to sanctions on Libya.

In a final step before the effective date should be on the same day, the more energy ministers meeting in Brussels to agree formally. If the sanctions are a travel ban and account lockouts for the leadership team to head of state Muammar al Gaddafi, an arms embargo and an embargo of goods that could be used for repression.

The list of those whose foreign accounts be blocked, has been extended by 20 people, said the Hungarian Energy Minister and current EU President Tamßs Fellegi. These include Gaddafi and five family members. The UN Security Council had already decided on Saturday to terminate the accounts of Gaddafi and his family, to impose travel bans and an arms embargo.

The lists of the EU are larger than those of the UN. Specifically, travel bans were imposed on 16 people, including Gadhafi, several family members and other persons who are held responsible for the violence against the population. Demonstrators in Benghazi, Libya's former swing flag. At the UN, meanwhile, will continue to discuss a no-fly zone over Libya.

Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (FDP) had announced in the morning in the southwestern radio that he would during the day with the partners in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to explore opportunities of such a no-fly zone. The New York Times "reported that representatives from the White House, the U.S.

State Department and Pentagon have already exchanged on Sunday with European partners and NATO representatives concerning a flight ban. There was still no decision has been taken, a senior U.S. government official is quoted as saying. Such a move would be decided only in consultation with partners.

Libyan rebels, meanwhile, an Air Force fighter jet shot down and captured the crew, as an eyewitness reported on Monday. The aircraft had fired at a radio station in Misrata. Near the 200 kilometers east of the capital city of Tripoli, it is still fighting between the rebels and loyal to Muammar Gaddafi troops.

The fighting focused on a military base, which would still partially held by the Gaddafi troops, said the witness told Reuters. The ammunition depot of the base but was in the hands of the rebels, as well as the city itself and the airport. According to the broadcaster Al Jazeera rebels are now to be moved up to about 50 kilometers of the capital Tripoli.

The city of Az-Zawiyah was killed on Sunday in the hands of the opposition. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, condemned the violence against civilians in Libya. "Is not the use of military force against civilians unacceptable," Lavrov said at the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

"Russia condemns such violence, demands their immediate cessation, and observance of international law," Lavrov said, speaking of hundreds of civilian deaths. The "long-overdue transition" to democracy in the Arab world would support Russia if it is also the matter of the peoples concerned, first, "Lavrov said.

Already on Friday of the Human Rights Council had a special meeting on the actions of the Libyan leadership against civilians condemned and consequences required. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is expected to decide within the next few days of initiation of a formal investigation of the bloody crackdown on protests in Libya.

Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Monday, a team was busy this regard collect information. In Britain, an act of the Privy Council on Sunday night has withdrawn all of their assets within the United Kingdom of the disposal of the Gaddafi family. The statement was made at a special meeting of the Privy Council, chaired by the Queen at Windsor Castle, the decision follows reports that Gaddafi had only a few days in the capital value of more than three billion euros in London want to create.

British Finance Minister Osborne prevented according to a report of the Guardian newspaper also bureaucratic by delaying payments that freshly printed Libyan banknotes worth more than a billion euros that were waiting in the North East in a security warehouse for delivery, fell into the hands of the Libyan regime.

It made it difficult to extradition because that will pick up the Libyan government aircraft that have the money to conduct an airfield in southern England was set. Meanwhile, an export control order was made effective after the export has now to be forbidden.

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