Friday, March 11, 2011

NATO will strengthen its naval presence off the coast of Libya

NATO will send more naval units to the central Mediterranean to monitor the arms embargo on Libya, approved by the UN, said Thursday the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The meeting of allied defense ministers also agreed to instruct the military authorities to urgently draw up detailed plans to implement active measures to implement the arms embargo and to send humanitarian aid to Libya, said Rasmussen.

Added that he also study "further action" to implement a no-fly zone in case you receive a "clear mandate" of the Security Council United Nations. Rasmussen has said that NATO is "closely monitoring" the situation in Libya and believes that, as noted by the Security Council of the United Nations, attacks "widespread and systematic" scheme against Muammar Gaddafi population "could constitute crimes against humanity." The secretary general has studied with the ministers that planning experts are taking place for the Alliance is ready if an intervention is ultimately decided.

Before Rasmussen moved that the meeting today will not make decisions on possible action and insisted that any action to launch Allied must meet the three principles stated, which go through a "demonstrable need" for intervention, by having a "clear legal basis" and a "strong regional support."

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