Tuesday, March 1, 2011

U.S. reaches out to opposition to the regime of Gaddafi

The repressive regime of Muammar Gaddafi changed the script of the United States and the international community to the Arab riots of 2011. So far the Obama trying to preserve the balance supporting the democratic aspirations of the people without ever leaving the dictators, which in the case of Egypt was also an ally.

President Barack Obama balked at any time to ask in public the progress of rais Hosni Mubarak, and claimed that the revolt was an internal affair of the Egyptians. The same discussion applied to the revolt in Tunisia and, until this weekend, to Libya, a country with which the bonds was more subdued.

The news of massacres - "genocide" has come to mean a Libyan diplomat, has led to disaffection blow this doctrine. This weekend, Obama has demanded the departure of Gaddafi. And the Security Council of the UN, in a rare show of international unity, has issued a series of sanctions on the regime and has asked the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague to investigate.

After closing the embassy in Tripoli and cut the last links with Gaddafi and his environment, the U.S. secretary of state. UU., Hillary Clinton, yesterday gave another way to advertise that Washington has reached out to opposition groups who control eastern Libya. The gesture questions the commitment not to interfere in the politics of countries outside the Obama administration had held so far.

Clinton recalled that "every country is different" and said that "America supports those who follow the path of reform," citing among allied monarchies of Jordan and Bahrain. EE. UU. and two-way draw to the riots: supporting reform through the monarchies and pressure for the relief to the troubled republics.

"We're trying to get in contact with several Libyans in the east, while the revolution is moving towards the west," Clinton said before flying to Geneva, where he will participate in a meeting of the Human Rights Commission of the UN. "It's too early to tell what will happen, but we are willing to offer any help that anyone wishes the United States." A spokesman of the new Libyan National Council, formed in the eastern city of Benghazi, rejected the agency told Reuters any foreign intervention.

EE. UU. rhetoric has hardened his own, but in concert with European partners. The effort culminated on Saturday night (early Tuesday in Europe), with the adoption by the Security Council of UN resolution 1970. The newest of the resolution is not so much the arms embargo, travel ban and 17 figures of the regime or the freezing of Libyan assets abroad of Gadhafi and his environment.

There was consensus on these sanctions. What is new is that the sanctions were adopted unanimously, and that these include the decision to refer possible crimes against humanity committed these days in Libya to the International Criminal Court based in The Hague for investigation and prosecute those responsible .

This was the main sticking point during the two days of meetings between the 15-member Security Council. China and Russia, veto-wielding (and sometimes EE. UU.) Usually wary of such measures that undermine national sovereignty. But a letter from the Libyan ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Abderrahman Shalgam, helped soften the reluctant.

The ambassador, who has distanced himself from Gaddafi, in a letter supporting the measure "so that those responsible for attacks against civilians Libyan accountable for their actions, including before the International Criminal Court." The sanctions rule out the creation of a no-fly zone over Libya and exclude armed intervention to stop the killings.

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