The United Nations has reached a deal with the Gadhafi government in western Libya which will allow humanitarian aid into the country, including into the besieged city of Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west.
UN officials are continuing to push for a full ceasefire from both sides, but this was reportedly not included in the deal reached today. The British government has announced that it is committing $2.4 million in aid to support evacuation of foreign workers from Misrata.
Gadhafi had agreed early last week to an African Union mediation deal that would include a ceasefire. The rebel faction in East Libya rejected the deal, however, insisting any deal that didn’t involve the ouster of Gadhafi’s entire family from Libyan territory was unacceptable.
Misrata has been under siege for weeks, and is the only city in the west which the regime seems unable to retake from the initial rebel march toward the capital. The rebels have control over much of East Libya, though fighting also continues along the frontier between the two factions.
Dear Sir
In my opinion The UK,US and France has no right to interfere with other countries affairs especially when they embraced the gaddafi,s when they needed them to fight terrorizm, eventhough they obtained a rather hurried mandate from the security council on the bases to protect the civilians on either side , Do you call dropping bombs on Tripoli is protecting civilians, is Lybia better now that it was three weeks ago, the answer is no
BBC and Sky keep on saying that the regime is killing his own people? the civilians who choose to remove the regime are armed and if they were let off they were planning on marching to Tripoli and I believe no government will allow an armed rebellion which is infuenced by the west to proceed without a fight. and deffending what they believe in , if the majority in mizrata are against the regime they should not leave,they should stand up and fight. now the west is calling for regime change which is illegal per 1973 resolution and I can see no revised resolution as Chia, Russia will veto.
Max