UK Clashes With UN Over Libya No-Fly Zone

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5:13am UK, Wednesday March 02, 2011
Jon Craig, chief political correspondent

William Hague's claim that the UK may go it alone and impose a no-fly zone over Libya without the UN sounds eerily familiar.

Remember Tony Blair's headlong dash to invade Iraq in 2003 without a second United Nations resolution?

In a surprise move, the Foreign Secretary said that while "ideally" a no-fly zone would be sanctioned by a resolution of the UN Security Council, it was not necessarily essential.

"There have been occasions in the past when such a no-fly zone has had clear, legal, international justification even without a Security Council resolution," he said. "It depends on the situation on the ground."

Mr Hague's threat came after Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, dismissed David Cameron's call for plans to be drawn up for a no-fly zone, saying that the idea was "superfluous".

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1. Libya can manage its own affairs. Russia and China should block any subversion.

The UN will not endorse these war moves. And the Libyan people will rise to resist infringements on its sovereignty.