UPDATE 1-Turkey to play appropriate role over Libya -formin

[JanDutchy]

Source: Reuters


Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:30pm GMT

ISTANBUL, March 19 (Reuters) - NATO-member Turkey will make the necessary and appropriate national contribution to implementing a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya and measures to protect civilians, its foreign ministry said late on Saturday.

"Within that framework the necessary preparations and studies are being made by civil and military authorities in co-ordination," the statement added, giving no further detail.

Turkey has been calling for an immediate ceasefire in Libya and said it opposed foreign military intervention.

However after the U.N. Security Council decision authorising military action the office of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement that the resolution was binding on all countries


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