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NATO strikes on Libya amount to land operation - Moscow
Topic: International sanctions against Gaddafi regime
Sergei Lavrov
© RIA NovostiNATO strikes on Libya amount to land operation - Moscow
© REUTERS/ Louafi LarbiNATO strikes on Libya amount to land operation - Moscow
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NATO's actions in Libya are gradually evolving into a land operation, Russia's foreign minister warned on Saturday.
The French armed forces website said on Saturday that British and French light aviation helicopters of the ground forces had delivered pinpoint strikes at Libya on Friday night as part of NATO's military operation.
"We know that France and Britain intend to use combat helicopters, which we see as intentional or unintentional development [of NATO's operation into] a land operation," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Russia originally opposed any international military interference into the armed confrontation between supporters and opponents of Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year regime in Libya.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said last week that Gaddafi's regime had lost its legitimacy and the Libyan leader must leave his post. Moscow is sending a presidential envoy, Mikhail Margelov, to Libya next week for talks with the rebels' ruling body.
ODESSA, June 4 (RIA Novosti)
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- wanklordMr. Lavrov: STFU20:49, 04/06/2011The more the Russian Federation speaks against NATO's intervention in Libya the more they ridicule themselves...why Russia did not veto UN resolution 1973... hypocrisy at its best!
- bielecWhat Russia should do...23:41, 04/06/2011...is to copy this situation in Georgia. Help organize protests, deliver weapons to the "revolutionaries", send military advisers and some special forces units, provoke the government to use force... and here you go.
Get the UN Security Council to support a resolution, send the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation military forces with the "humanitarian intervention" mission, and bomb the hell out of Sakashvili and his backers.
That's exactly what NATO is doing in Libya. - masterplumber75Russia , China , where are you?06:01, 05/06/2011Why are you two countries allowing this? Why do you two keep allowing this aggression? Youth all know they are going to take a country at a time until they are on your doorstep.Vladimir Putin when are you going to do what you know needs to be done?
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