Libya:Situation in Libya is in deadlock – INTERVIEW

Laaska News  July 28,2011
Kudashkina Ekaterina
AUDIO Libyan rebel. Photo: RIA Novosti   
 

Interview with Alexei Podtserob, former Russian Ambassador to Libya, who is going to bring us a better perspective of what is going on in that country.

I believe that now we can see that there is a deadlock in the military operation. Of course, there is some success from the part of the rebels, but this success is very and very minor, and generally the military situation stays in the deadlock and it influences the development of political situation around Libya.

Do I get it right that the deadlock has produced somehow controversial signals from the international community?

You see, of course, this deadlock begins to influence the position of the European countries. First of all, you know that from the beginning it was a very strong position, it means Gaddafi must go with his family, the Libyan army has to return to the barracks, and in reality these two requests mean that it would be the capitulation of Gaddafi, and the capitulation of Gaddafi means the capitulation of Tripolitania. Now the Europeans, from my point of view, began to understand that it is impossible, really difficult to resolve this problem by military ways, and this I have to say because of the heroic resistance of the Libyan army – it is a reality. Till now we have about 16 thousand flights of NATO aviation, 16 thousand flights against the army which has only 30 thousand people. It means one flight of NATO aviation for each two soldiers in government army in Libya. Maybe it is not the beginning, but in any case there are some signs that the Europeans try to find another solution, a political solution. That is why some of them say that Gaddafi and his family may stay in Libya, they also say that he and his family can immigrate to another country and stay there, and so on, and so on. But in any case I believe that the responsibility for the present situation is the responsibility of the Transitional National Council in Benghazi which continues to repeat that Gaddafi must go, that the Libyan army has to return to the barracks, and it blocks all the attempts to achieve a political settlement, to begin serious talks. I believe that if the situation of present military deadlock would continue and if it would be a cease fire on the present positions of the two forces – of the army and of the rebels – it may lead to the separation of the country, such as it was with Chinese People’s Republic and Chinese Republic (Taiwan), such as it was with Korea and with Vietnam – the same scenario, I do not exclude it.

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