Wednesday, 30. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 30, 2011 at 5:51:00 PM CEST
David Cameron has told MPs that Britain agrees with the US that coalition forces could legally supply arms to rebel forces under UN security resolution 1973
The resolution allows "all necessary measures" to be taken to protect civilians in Libya. The Guardian's Paul Harris reported that the key phrase which allows the supply of arms appears to lie in paragraph 4 of UN resolution 1973.
My colleague Paul Harris says he has just spoken to a Western diplomatic source in the United Nations who said that the key language that may be used to justify arming the Libyan rebels lies in Paragraph 4 of UN resolution 1973, which is the one that gave the go-ahead for intervention and a no-fly zone.
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