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Libya: Tensions at the Security Council
The Security Council meeting about Libya unveiled, in broad daylight, some superpower countries’ disagreements about the Libyan conflict. It is also on the sidelines of the meeting that the NATO spokesman, James Appathurai, acknowledged the little progress on the ground and said the UN should adopt a new resolution to authorize a ground intervention. That clearly means that military option undertaken by NATO has bogged down and has little chance of success without ground troop intervention.
This situation has brought China and Russia to show their disagreement with the escalation. “China is not in favor of an arbitrary interpretation of the Security Council resolutions”.
Its representative, Li Baodong, expressed the views of his country clearly accusing France, England and the U.S. of overstepping their rights and the framework of resolution 1973. Meanwhile, China and Arab countries continue their rapprochement. Its foreign minister attended the meeting of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), and stated that “China had always rejected the use of force in international relations and always supporting all efforts to end crisis through dialogue and negotiation”.
For its part, Russia is denouncing the increasing number of NATO bombing victims and stated that “a disproportionate use of force is unacceptable”. In summary and looking closely to the different statements, before, while and after the Security Council, one can easily conclude that the Libyan adventure will lead to a diplomatic deadlock, thus restricting the NATO-backed coalition strictly to the spirit of resolution 1973.
The best evidence to this scenario is the cash injection of 250 million dollars that has been just allocated to the rebels from the Contact Group. But let us be clear, this is the vision of the doves within the decision makers and the stakeholders; if and only if the hawks wouldn’t force the choice of war because there is a lot to lose economically and geopolitically.