To Be Expected, UN Security Council on #Libya Disappoints

Just "concern", call for an "end", ask for the safety of "foreigners" and more "concern".

And the Libyan delegation had to demand a meeting just to get this lame statement?

From AFP via Dow Jones Newswire via Zawya.com:

UNITED NATIONS (AFP)--The U.N. Security Council voiced "grave concern" Tuesday about the events unfolding in Libya and issued a statement calling for an "immediate end to the violence."

The council also urged Libyan authorities to ensure the safety of foreigners and make sure that humanitarian workers can get access to the wounded.

Those responsible for attacks on citizens in Libya should be "brought to account," added the statement issued at the end of a day of talks.

Libyan diplomats, who have broken with strongman leader Moammar Gadhafi, had demanded the meeting, and had called for a U.N. no-fly zone over the country as well as humanitarian action.

"There is even more concern after what was a very worrying speech by Moammar Gadhafi," a diplomat said before the meeting of the 15-nation council.

Kadhafi ordered his forces earlier to crush an uprising that has rocked his 41-year rule for the past week, warning armed protesters they will be executed and vowing to fight to the end.

In a defiant and rambling television speech, Kadhafi vowed to remain in Libya as leader, saying he would die as a martyr in the land of his ancestors and fight to the "last drop" of his blood.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

22-02-11 2304GMT

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