Kesan pertama saya: langkah ini sungguh baik karena melibatkan, selain Eropa
Uni juga Liga Arab, Organisasi Islam Sedunia, Afrika Uni, PBB dan pertemuan
pertamanya akan berlangsung di Qatar...
Jadi susah buat banyak orang Islam yang dungu-dungu kayak babi untuk menuduh
bahwa usaha untuk membebaskan Libya dari kungkungan diktatur itu sebagai agresi
"Barat" terhadap dunia Arab atau agresi kafir terhaap Islam.
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Europe
New Libya contact group to meet in Qatar
London meeting agrees move will help efforts to map out Libya's future, amid
apparent split over arming rebels.
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2011 20:12
World powers meeting in London have agreed to set up a contact group to lead
international efforts to map out Libya's future, with the first meeting to take
place in Qatar, Britain has said.
"Participants of the conference agreed to establish the Libya Contact Group,"
said a statement issued by William Hague, the British foreign minister, who
chaired the meeting of more than 40 countries plus the UN and NATO.
The group would provide "leadership and overall political direction to the
international effort in close co-ordination with the UN, AU (African Union),
Arab League, OIC (Organisation of the Islamic Conference) and EU (European
Union) to support Libya", the statement said.
Hague said that "Qatar has agreed to convene the first meeting of the group as
soon as possible".
After the first meeting in Doha, Qatar, the chairmanship will rotate between
the countries of the region and beyond it, the statement said.
Following London talks, Hague held a news conference with Hamad Bin Jassim Al
Thani, the Qatari prime minister.
Qatar's prime minister urged Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, to step down
to halt bloodshed and said that he might only have a few days to negotiate an
exit.
"We urge Gaddafi and his people to leave," he told the news conference.
"I think this is the only solution to sort this problem as soon as possible.
Right now we don't see any indication of that.
"But this hope which we offer now might not be on the table after a few days.
I'm not warning anybody here, but I am trying to stop the bloodshed as soon as
possible."
Arming opposition
Hague said that diplomats had not discussed arming the opposition to Gaddafi.
He added that Libya was under a UN-mandated arms embargo and that the
restrictions "in our view apply to the whole of Libya".
UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to Al Jazeera
However, France said it was ready to discuss arming the Libyan opposition with
its coalition partners, despite this not being part of the UN mandate.
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said: "I remind you it is not part of
the UN resolution, which France sticks too, but we are ready to discuss it
[arming] with our partners."
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said on Tuesday she had discussed
ways to extend financial help to the opposition Libyan National Council but
that possible arms tranfers were not discussed.
She said that while the US had made no decisions on possible arms transfers, it
believed that the UN mandate could allow for "a legitimate transfer of arms if
a country were to choose to do that".
Tim Friend, Al Jazeera's correspondent in London, said suggestions such as
these illustrated the questions leaders were having to grapple with.
"The question is how far do you go? If Gaddafi's forces are fighting back do
you then step up the response, and if so how far do you take it?" he said.
"These are matters of degrees and they're very tricky questions. There are many
different perspectives on it."
'Better days'
Opening the talks on Tuesday, David Cameron, the British prime minister, told
the parties there were "better days ahead for Libya" as he said coalition
forces would continue their no-fly zone over the country.
World leaders speak on Libya
"Today I believe should be about a new beginning for Libya - a future in which
the people of Libya can determine their own destiny, free from violence and
oppression," he said.
"But the reason for being here today is that the Libyan people cannot reach
that future on their own."
Clinton told the conference that coalition military strikes would continue
until Gaddafi fully complied with UN demands to end violence against civilians.
She said the international community would work to boost pressure on and
isolate his government to "make clear to Gaddafi that he must go."
Earlier on Tuesday, Clinton and Hague, met Mahmoud Jibril, a leading member of
the Libyan opposition in London.
The meeting is another sign that the US administration is looking to expand
ties with rebel leaders, but an official stressed it did not constitute formal
recognition of the opposition.
Hague said the Libyan transitional council was an "important and legitimate
political interlocutor" but that Britain was committed to strengthening ties
with a "wide range of members of the Libyan opposition".
Libya's rebel National Council has promised to build a free, democratic nation
if it prevailed, in an eight-point statement.
It also said it would draft a national constitution allowing the formation of
political parties and trades unions.
Ahmed Khalifa, a spokesman for the rebel movement, told a news conference in
Benghazi he expected the London conference to create more pressure for Gaddafi
to leave.
"The national council rejects any negotiations with Gaddafi or his family ...
No one at this [London] conference is defending Gaddafi, he has lost his
legitimacy," he said.
Reports have also suggested that the US, Britain and France have sent special
envoys to the rebel-held city of Beghazi, but these have not been officially
confirmed.
Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies
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