From the left-wing Labor Party, Bert Koenders is the new minister of Foreign Affairs …
His statement on the worsening situation in Libya, at the end of the article:
“You have to intervene, but the use of the military instrument must always be linked to a political strategy and a strategy for development and peace negotiations.”
Koenders Warns for Danger Libya
It’s war in Iraq and the war in Syria. Nevertheless, the tense situation in Libya at the moment the greatest danger for Europe. Mr Koenders of Foreign Affairs last night at a meeting of his party, the Labour Party in Amsterdam.
“Libya is a country that increasingly falls apart,” said Koenders. “There are more than a thousand different factions; there are two parliaments There is one central bank, which distributes the money to various factions..”
Boat Refugees
Koenders points out that well off the coast of Libya, perhaps 70 percent of the boat refugees leaves for Europe. “It is a country that contributes to the whole Sahel region and for example destabilization of Mali,” he says. The Minister states it is an underestimated problem in Europe.
In Libya, according Koenders all sorts of extremist groups are nesting. “The intervention in Libya is too little thought given about a follow-up. Colonel Gaddafi had left a country where, in fact, no state existed, as we know it,” said Koenders.
“You have to intervene, but the military instrument must always be linked to a political strategy and a strategy for development and peace talks,” said the new minister.
No moral compass? No justification like Ms Clinton and other White House delegates of a succesful R2P policy to intervene in just about any sovereign state. Isn’t that what happened in Iraq and in Syria? He represented the UN, yet no reflection on International Law and matters of the UN Security Council.
