Sep 14
The Foreign Ministers of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, meeting in Caracas, Venezuela on 9 September 2011, recalling the Special Communiqué of the Political Council on 4 March 2011 and the Special Communiqué of the Ministerial Social Council on 19 March 2011, condemns the NATO intervention in Libya and its illegal military aggression, carried out under the cover of a UN Security Council resolution, opportunistically exploiting the situation of the internal political conflict in that country..
All quite sensible proposals. My two-penny piece, for what it is worth:-
Strange type of “democratic” process – where an evidently still popular leader, whose country has been bombed for 6 months, still finds within his country sufficient base of support, despite the combined efforts of the “rebel alliance”, such that there is no total ouster and defeat of that leader. Even stranger, when the African Union has presented a plan where the professed Western style elections are endorsed by the AU, and the leader accepts the plan to present himself for election accordingly, but the bombing continues, and the “democratic process” is one of bombing into power an opposition rebel faction, while simultaneously denying a choice to the Libyan people whether they want that leader to continue in power, or vote in the “bombed in” faction.
Strangely “democratic” process indeed, where bombs literally supplant any balllot, vote, referendum or yardstick of Libyan popular will.
Courtenay Barnett ( http://www.globaljusticeonline.com)