Friday, March 25, 2011

Paris is preparing for a Libya without Qaddafi and says the operation is a matter of weeks

France is preparing for the design of a Libya without Qaddafi, which will be the Transitional Council and other "personalities" policies of the country and believes that the military operation is a matter of "days or weeks, not months." The French foreign minister, Alain Juppe, has enabled France to discern how it considers the future of Libya after the implementation of Security Council resolution in the UN's exclusion from the North African country's airspace.

That vision of the military operation as an instrument for achieving a political objective was supported by the Defense Minister's remarks Gallo, Gérard Longuet, who first explained to the press on the sixth day of military operations. "If there is a political project makes no sense to intervene," said Minister Longuet, who said it is "to allow Libyans to meet and build a different future." Juppe was all I wanted to express that in a meeting with reporters in Paris that was supposed to be confidential, but the details he chose to be released and the central message was to consider the Libyan National Transitional Council (CNT) " not have the monopoly of representation of the rebels in his country.

The French foreign minister said that "no break" in the EU about the role of the CNT, the governing body of the rebels in the east, but said it may be "other persons" in Libya, whose opinion can be into account. And Juppe was categorical in rejecting any role in the future of Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, who said that "hands are stained with blood." "What I can say is that we already out of the crisis.

The military operation is not intended to last indefinitely. And the question for us is to prevent Gaddafi assaults on civilians and to make the Libyan forces in favor of democracy in a position to act. " "And when that is done, military intervention is destined to end," the minister said, adding that the duration of the military operation is measured in "days or weeks, not months." "You have to identify which individuals are available," he said Juppe on the participation of other Libyan opposition to Qaddafi in the design of the future government of the country and said that "some can identify them, but acknowledged that the situation in Libya" evolves ".

Regarding the political leadership of the international intervention Juppe said that "it is quite clear. It is a United Nations operation", said earlier in an interview on a radio morning gala. He recalled that to ensure the political leadership, as he called it on Tuesday, France and the UK have decided to bring together members of the coalition next week in London with the objective of forming "a kind of contact group." This will have the mission of "ensuring the broad policy guidelines," he said Juppe.

And as for the planning and conduct of operations, recalled that at first was done by Americans. "We now think that NATO (...) can have that role." Juppe moved to other Arab countries as well as those who attended the Paris summit on Saturday, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar and United Arab Emirates, could participate in the London meeting and referred to Saudi Arabia, without confirming that it will assist .

The French foreign minister also said that with the first five days of attacks by the coalition "has achieved an initial success." "We saved Benghazi" and "permitted to restore the balance" in the struggle between the forces of Gadhafi and his opponents, said after saying that without international military intervention Libyan leader "had massacred their opponents in Benghazi." According to the assessment offered by Juppe, the military potential of Gadhafi "has been largely destroyed" but "has the means on the ground" as illustrated by the bombing on Wednesday in Misrata.

The aim is "to protect the civilian population," recalled the owner of Foreign Affairs. Asked about civilian casualties Gaddafi denounced the regime (which has even opened the morgue of Tripoli and bodies shown to journalists), Alain Juppe replied emphatically: "What is happening is the opposite." In the same way it has expressed the American chief of mission in Libya, Gerard Hueber, who has rejected the Allied bombing any civilian casualties have occurred.

A French military spokesman later revealed that the French aviation during last night attacked a military base in Libyan territory. That base was apparently located "inside the country", the spokesman said was a "possible point of withdrawal or entry of mercenaries."

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