Archive for October 27th, 2011

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27/10/2011

Security Council Ends NATO’s Mandate for Military Operations in Libya

Human Wrongs Watch

New York, 27 October –The Security Council today 27 Oct. ordered the end to authorized international military action in Libya, more than seven months after allowing UN member states to take “all necessary measures” to protect civilians during a popular uprising against the country’s former regime.

UN Security Council | Credit: UN

The 15-member UN body unanimously passed a resolution ending the UN mandate allowing military intervention and terminating a no-fly zone over Libya that had also been imposed in March.

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27/10/2011

‘Liberated’ Libya, Now Under Foreign Tutelage

Human Wrongs Watch

Cairo – While the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) chief continues ‘begging” NATO to remain in his country at least until the end of this year, a new international coalition of 13 countries -including the U.S., France and UK- has been announced in Doha to supervise “training, (re)arming and collecting weapons missions, after the end of the NATO mission.”

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The new NATO-inspired bloc, to be led by Qatar, was announced on Oct. 26 in Doha during a conference of the so-called “Friends Committee in Support of Libya”.

Qatar’s Chief of Staff, Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, said that the international coalition is “new pop-up” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it was reported from Doha.

Meanwhile, several Arab countries announced in Doha conference that their troops and military equipments had actively participated and even fought side by side with Libyan rebels. This has been the case, so far, of Qatar, Sudan, Jordan and the United Arab Emirate, according to announcements by their respective leaders.

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