Friday, March 18, 2011

Rasmussen asked the UN agreement to curb Qadhafi's victory

The NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday urged the UN to achieve an early agreement to intervene in Libya and to avoid "unacceptable" victory of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi against the rebels. "If Gaddafi imposed, will send a clear signal that violence works. That would be unacceptable from a humanitarian and democratic," Rasmussen said in his profile on Facebook.

The NATO secretary general warned that "time is running out" to decide a show and said that the Alliance is "ready to protect civilians from attacks by the regime." The allies will intervene, Rasmussen recalled, whenever there is "a demonstrable need a clear legal basis and strong regional support." These three conditions were set last week by defense ministers of the organization to give the green light to military action in Libya.

Today, to meet these requirements would be missing a Security Council resolution authorizing the UN to use force, in view of Qaddafi continues to use warplanes to bomb the rebel strongholds after the Arab League given its approval to the imposition of a no-fly zone, the shuffle option. The role of NATO in any case, still not clear, since some of its members, especially Turkey and Germany, have so far been opposed to military intervention.

Furthermore, some who insist on the need to combat Qaddafi, such as France, prefer that operations are carried out within the framework of the Alliance. The government in Paris is precisely one of those now leading efforts to bring forward a Security Council resolution authorizing the UN international military action in Libya.

Meanwhile, Gaddafi's forces continue to advance and returned to bomb the airport in Benin, about 10 miles west of Benghazi, the second largest city and a stronghold of the rebels.

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