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15/07/2011 | Africa - Libya: military action will intensify while UN presses for end to conflict

Telegraph Staff

Military action against Muammar Gaddafi's government will be intensifed while a UN envoy presses for negotiations to end the conflict in Libya, William Hague said.

 

Mr Hague, the foreign secretary, said the UN secretary-general's special envoy to Libya, Abdul Elah Al-Khatib, would be authorised to present terms for Gaddafi to leave power and bring an end to the bloodshed that began with a popular uprising against his 41-year rule in February.

"He (special envoy) has taken a central role in this contact group meeting and we see him as the channel for negotiations and for political settlement, while the military pressure on the regime will continue to intensify," Mr Hague said in an interview with Reuters during an international Libya contact group meeting in Istanbul.

Alain Juppe, France's foreign minister, said that the military action will continue through Ramadan unless Gaddafi submits to demands to step down.

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State and Baroness Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, were among more than a dozen foreign ministers attending the Istanbul talks, along with heads of NATO, the Arab League and other regional organisations. More than 30 governments and international organisations were attending the one-day meeting.

The Libya contact group today recognised the rebel National Transitional Council as the country's "legitimate governmental authority".

The group of major Western and regional powers also urged "all relevant parties" to make efforts "for the formation of an interim government to ensure a smooth and peaceful transition of power," said the statement, to be formally issued at the end of a meeting in Istanbul later Friday.

Together with France, Britain has taken a lead role in the NATO mission to protect Libyan civilians from attack by Gaddafi's forces and enforce a no-fly zone.

"The people of Benghazi are there and the city was not stormed because of the NATO action. The same applies to Misrata, equally many people in the Western mountains have benefited from that," Hague said.

"Of course, we all want to follow it through to the real success of the political settlement in Libya that requires Colonel Gaddafi to go," Mr Hague said. "Military action will intensify."

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Thursday for members of the alliance to provide more aircraft to bomb Gaddafi's forces.

Britain said on Friday it would send four more Tornado warplanes for the NATO mission in Libya, in addition to the 12 already deployed to support the more modern Eurofighter Typhoons.

Telegraph (Reino Unido)

 


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