Mariátegui
26/03/1911
The head of the opposition National Council of Libya, Mahmoud Jabril, thanked France for its participation in the operation against the leader Libyan Muammar Gaddafi in a letter to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and published today in the journal Le Figaro.
Jabril said while the opposition does not want to see foreign troops in the territory of Libya. The message was sent after the appearance of contradictory information about the ground operation. In particular, some sources reported on Friday night to Saturday that coalition units and landed in Libya.
U.S. President, Barack Obama, refuted the news. He stressed that the United States from the very beginning was not the initiator of launching an operation against Libya and joined the international coalition to respond to your request.
Last Friday, an anonymous source in the Russian secret service reported that the coalition International is developing a plan vigorously ground operation in Libya, which could begin in late April.
Since mid-February in Libya protests are developed, where participants are demanding the resignation of Gaddafi, who has been in power for more than 40 years. The demonstrations led to clashes between government forces and rebels. International organizations reported thousands of deaths. The Libyan authorities deny.
March 17, the Security Council of United Nations approved a resolution authorizing impose an air exclusion zone over Libya and provided for the possibility of a foreign military operation to defend the people against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi. "Operation Dawn Odyssey", which involved 13 countries, including Britain, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Denmark, began on 19 March.
Libyan officials say, following this operation killed dozens of civilians. The coalition does not confirm.
NATO without Russian support for ground operation in Libya
The Russian government will be difficult to support a ground operation of the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against Libya, the representative said Saturday in this country before the military organization, Dmitri Rogozin.
"Moscow would be willing to support NATO's efforts to end the conflict in the north African country, but occupation of the north African country considered military action on the ground of that block," Rogozin said, as quoted by a press release from the Prensa Latina.
warned that members of the Atlantic alliance must be fully understood as follows: can only appeal to support Russia in matters relating to the cease-fire and efforts to prevent civilian casualties, he said.
"We are ready to make joint efforts to prevent the spread of conflict, but if it is a flagrant violation of resolution 1973 the Security Council of the UN, then no one can count on our support, "he said.
A ground operation would be precisely the occupation Libya, considered Rogozin, referring to reports in the Russian intelligence, according to which the Atlantic Alliance is preparing a direct military action in Libyan territory next April.
past week, the U.S. Air Force, United Kingdom France, Italy and Canada, under the pretext of imposing a no-fly zone, bombing Libya, where they killed have 114 people and leaving about 450 injured, according to official reports of the government of Libya.
During the past 24 hours, the invading forces carried out 153 sorties, fired 16 Tomahawk cruise missiles and four guided aerial bombs against artillery, mechanized corps and the infrastructure of command of the troops loyal to Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
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