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World leaders in Paris mull military action against Gaddafi forces
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined envoys from the EU, Arab League and African Union at crisis talks in Paris Saturday. France's UN envoy said air strikes against Libyan government forces could start within hours.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - US, European and Arab leaders on Saturday held a Libya crisis summit with the threat of military strikes against Moamer Kadhafi's forces growing ever more intense.
A senior French envoy predicted strikes against the Libyan leader could start within hours of the summit. The United States has also declared that Kadhafi is in breach of a UN Security Council resolution which ordered an immediate ceasefire.
An ultimatum sent by France, Britain, the United States and Arab countries to Kadhafi late Friday warned him to "immediately" cease all attacks on his people or face the consequences.
France's ambassador to the UN, Gerard Araud, told the BBC he expects military action in Libya "in the coming hours" after the Paris summit.
President Nicolas Sarkozy will host the crisis summit to be attended by prime ministers David Cameron of Britain, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Government leaders from Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Poland are also at the summit, diplomats said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and leaders from the European Union, Arab League and African Union are also attending.
Sarkozy, Cameron and Clinton discussed sharing out the military roles ahead of the summit, sources said. France and Britain would focus on air strikes, while other NATO countries would police the no-fly zone, the sources said.
They were also to choose a top officer to lead the campaign.
So far Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Qatar and the United States have said they will help to implement a no-fly zone that was authorised by UN Security Council resolution 1973 passed on Thursday.
Western nations have called for strong Arab support for the military operation after Arab League foreign ministers called for the no-fly zone over Libya last week. In response, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa will be at the summit.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and EU president Herman Van Rompuy will also be in Paris.
The statement released by France and other allies said that "a ceasefire must be put in place immediately, that is, that all attacks against civilians must come to an end".
It demanded that Kadhafi forces halt their advance on the rebel capital of Benghazi and withdraw from the cities of Ajdabiya, Misrata and Zawiyah. "That is not negotiable," it warned.
If Kadhafi did not comply with the Security Council resolution, he would face "consequences" from the international community and "the resolution will be imposed by military means".
"Left unchecked, we have every reason to believe that Kadhafi would commit atrocities against his people," US President Barack Obama said, reinforcing the international message. "Many thousands could die. A humanitarian crisis would ensue."
Kadhafi declared a ceasefire on Friday but Libyan rebels said fighting goes on.
Details of the role of each country in the threatened action remain vague.
The British prime minister said his country would deploy Tornado and Typhoon warplanes as well as air-to-air refuelling and surveillance aircraft to airbases "from where they can take the necessary action".
Britain has an airbase on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
France has not yet announced what planes or facilities it is preparing.
Canada has announced the deployment of six CF-18 fighter jets to help enforce a no-fly zone.
Obama has left unclear the exact role that the United States would play in military action, beyond enabling European and Arab partners to "effectively" mount a no-fly zone.
He made clear, however, that there would be no US ground troops deployed to Libya.
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Comments (4)
bahrain
What has the devious white man have to say about saudi arabia.?
humanitarian efforts
And what about Bahrein snd Yemen?
Libya
You will run out of targets with a day. Qaddafi is Libya he is the command and control. He is a legitimate target.
Libya
Oaddafi: if you hear me out there this is Phylistic Political Science at the United Nations
-- you must relinquish claiming that you are the sole legitimate head of state representative of the government of Libya. The former government is no longer recognized in the international community and have lost its legitimacy ----------- it is a historical fact that an over whelming majority of the entire Libyan diplomatic core of representative had already denounced the legitimacy of the previous government in Libya and hereby constitute as a defacto government in exile in Libya.
What every is trying to exist in Libya is hereby requested to allow for the negotiated settlement for an International World Court proceeding to follow for a full international investigation of allegation of genocide, the uses of discriminative military force against unarm civilians, the arming of insurgent to carryout mass murder, mass execution, and defying international call to step down when the conflict could had been brought under control.
The previous government of Libya really does not have full legitimacy -- but must be accountable to fully address their action of crimes against humanity in a World Court Tribunal proceeding -- that world court proceeding must follow immediate as of the date of the release of this notice March , 2011
-- there must be an immediate succession of arm conflict, a ceasefire could only be fully enforce with United Nations police keep personnel on the ground
-- all parties to the conflict must agree to from a new government in the present of United Nations representatives
-- international relief organization must be allowed in under their term of security and condition, a UN police keeping force will be assigned to them upon their request
-- A United National international investigation team must be assemble and allowed unfetter access in Libya to any place of known violence, mass grave, and to conduct their investigation without harassment, threat, and improper uses of security force, a United Nations Police keeping force will be assigned to them upon there request to question those eye witness who would be willing to speak on the record
-- another heavy arm United Nation police force, only police keep force, not military unite, must be allowed to enter Libya if they are attacked by arm force they are the one responsible to take decisive action even the uses air support to remove the force in question --- civilian will be used as a shield and it is important to uses what every means to protect civilians life
-- all parties with heavy arm and artillery equipment must surrender them to a United Nations security force, that include the former military personnel of the previous government, any weapon such as shoulder artillery must be surrender from all side
-- all former military personnel must relinquish their weapons and surrender themselves for international investigation and inquiry
-- all international news media must be allowed free access without interference or threat of hostility
-- an international World Court Tribunal can be either set up in side Libya or out side of Libya ------------ the first stage must move forward with out delay within 48 hours of the release of this notice: 3/ 18 /2011 --- Time: 6:57 Ept
-- evidence revealed that genocide has taken place
-- evidence reveal that premeditated discriminatory uses of armed force were carried out against unarmed civilians
-- evidence reveal that insurgence where hire to carryout audacity against unarm civilians
Note: all these charges must be fully investigated, an international arrest warrant must be issues to all parties involve for questioning
-- there will be no full recognition of any government until a new government is elected in Libya ---------- if any changes must be made to the what ever existed there before and/or abolish all together what ever constituted there before in Libya those condition must move forward now without any delay and all international governing body can help in the process ----------- there will be no interference of hostility of uses of forces, if an election date is agreed upon extra international police forces will be assigned
These are the terms and condition for full recognition of a new Libyan government, no sanction cannot be lifted until all United Nations demands are complied with that include the recent United Nations Security Council Resolution: this Phylistic Political Science International press release is addressed to the United Nations human right Council and the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki Moon ….etc
Press release an address on Libya will be posted on face book: Felix Pps Ipp Carrasquillo Jr. -- Myspace: Phylistic, you tube phylistic
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