allies created a fund with money from Libya for the rebels
increase diplomatic pressure on the regime of Muammar Qaddafi, which he described as "piracy" international action
Given the evidence that the military solution will not resolve the conflict Libyan ever, all 22 allies that support the NATO's intervention sought in Rome yesterday to find new ways to increase political pressure on the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. The Contact Group said that "time is running out" for the African dictator, adopted the road map to democracy proposed by the National Transitional Council (CNT) and announced the creation of a fund to channel, "so more transparent and under the umbrella of the UN ", government resources to Benghazi, suffocated and unable to meet basic needs of the population.
At the request of the rebels, now want to be called" freedom fighters ", the heterodox international summit (nine Arab countries plus the African Union, Arab League, UN and various Western powers with the U.S. in the lead) decided that the fund, which will oversee the Sanctions Committee of the United Nations, be provided with loans, Libyan donations and funds invested during the time of Gaddafi and now frozen by the effect of UN resolutions.
The CNT asked the allies 2,000 and 3,000 million dollars, but the host the second meeting of the Contact Group, the Italian Minister Franco Frattini, did not specify the amount. Kuwait pledged $ 180 million, and Prime Minister of Qatar, Hamad bin Jaber, said that his country had injected "between 400 and 500 million dollars." "There is a problem of quantity but of how to channel the money, and that's what we have resolved today," said Qatari sheikh.
frozen funds regime
Secretary of State of the United States, Hillary Clinton promised that promote legislative changes to "unfreeze part of the 30,000 million dollars" that Tripoli has invested at home, and put forward a project to bring equipment "non-lethal" to Benghazi. As expected, Qaddafi has not made an iota of grace this listing. "Piracy on the high seas, has solved the Minister of Economy of the regime, KhaledKaim.
When asked about whether Washington referred to Qaddafi as an operation carried out with Osama bin Laden, Clinton threw balls out: "Our work in Libya is to protect civilians. It would be better sooner Gaddafi stop their brutal attacks against population and resign. That's the goal. "
France estimated that the fund will only be operational "within weeks" and his foreign minister, Alain Juppe, said it will take "more work" to release the Libyan funds frozen in Europe.
All agreed on the need for "a ceasefire as soon as possible" to engage in the political roadmap designed by the rebels on the advice of Turkey and South Africa form a transitional government in which all sectors are country, including those of the old regime who have not participated in human rights violations, to approve a constitution by referendum and hold elections first parliamentary and presidential elections after all under UN supervision.
Turkish Minister raised Ahmeg Davutoglu summit on "ambition", as defined by Frattini, to silence the weapons "in a week", though few believed possible that hypothesis.
"Visitors so short time is difficult," said English Minister Trinidad Jimenez, "but the important thing is that we all agree that the military solution will allow Libya to reach a united, democratic and non-Qaddafi, that alone will possible to isolate the regime. "
Among other things, the summit decided to appoint dialogue initiatives special envoy of UN secretary general, intensify the fight against arms trafficking, combating the presence of mercenaries in the ranks of Gaddafi Satellite curb emissions of the scheme and ask the allies to isolate and do not receive the envoys of the Jamahiriya.
diversity of voices led to some misunderstandings. The CNT reported that Spain, Denmark and the Netherlands had recognized them as the sole representative of Libya, but the three countries qualify for this claim. Jiménez said that Spain "is not recognized by governments, but states", although he accepts that it is a "mere legal nuance," and that "the political decision to recognize de facto the Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people" in the hope "It will be capable of bringing together all sectors of the country excluding Gaddafi to guide the transition. "Aid in English, Jimenez declined to quantify.
Source newspaper" El Pais "
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