European Union Suspends Arms Trade With Libya

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Wed Feb-23-11 10:52 AM
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European Union Suspends Arms Trade With Libya

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The European Union has suspended all arms trade with Libya ahead of discussing sanctions against its leader Moammer Gaddafi who ordered bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters who demand his resignation.

Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday that she had received information that "all trade of arms, licensing (with Libya) is suspended by all (European Union) countries concerned."

A meeting of EU diplomats in Brussels on Wednesday is set to discuss imposing further sanctions on Gaddafi's regime, but member-states such as Italy and Malta, the countries which had granted the largest arm export licenses to Libya in 2009, are reportedly against the move.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been at the forefront of proposing punitive measures, calling for "swift and concrete sanctions" against Libya, and suspension of the 27-nation bloc's economic and financial ties with that North African country.

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Wed Feb-23-11 11:32 AM
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1. Always, habitually, slow to react.

I'm beginning to realize that the slow reactions of the EU in all types of interventions is more than a matter of guarding oil and cozy business relationships, it's a consequence of the last century. After all, they lived next to each other for a half century in a situation where intervention would have been lethal on a huge scale.

Sometimes that caution is a good thing, as with Iraq, sometimes not. Now it is not. They've missed the opportunity to push things quickly, so now Gaddafi digs in.

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