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they killed a profit Gaddafi and core

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Aviva No , no

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baby animal kunar province . Nonstop

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Yamagata sufficient today . So listen

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to informative to confirm a to ,

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it's okay . And the answer was maybe

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you want to repeat the answer in in

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english general . Thank God . See

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1st and 2nd , you just say that there's

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no you have not people underground . So

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how can you sure that you are just

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targeting military object ? Not others .

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Thank you . Okay . Talking about

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situation in Benghazi and what I would

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say in the eastern part of the country ,

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the situation is relatively stable and

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calm and NATO succeeding has succeeded

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in the last 4 to 5 weeks to stabilize

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the situation . I remind you that when

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we , when NATO took off the operation ,

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uh , talking about the beginning of

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april the end of March , the situation

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in Albania , BRega and Benghazi was

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highly critical and people ,

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civilian people were being slaughtered

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by regime forces . So the first concern

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with NATO operations during the first

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week have been to stabilize the

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situation and now the situation there

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is more than calm and stable and

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uh , what was the second part of the

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question ? Please useless .

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You just say that there's no people on

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the ground in trouble . So how can you

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confirm that there's no bit heated uh ,

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civilian targets ? How can you assure ?

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We have , we have the best information

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possible that we have , we know exactly

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the military which are the military

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sites and we know for sure which are

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military sites and which are not and we

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only are after the command and control

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structure because as I said before ,

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the first part of the operation has

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been dedicated to countdown the

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situation to stabilize the situation

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and to stop slaughtering all the

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civilians . And once done that in a

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broader campaign design . Now , NATO is

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taking care about , I mean taking out

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the capacity of Mr Gaddafi to give

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orders to his troops to slaughter

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civilians . That's why we're after

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command and control centers . And uh of

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course they're all military command and

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control centers .

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We have one

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good morning , I'm paolo santa Lucia

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from the Associated Press . Let me go

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back uh , to a question that has been

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already post , but to have a little bit

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more details about this migrant ship ,

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because we had the chance to do an

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interview this morning with an eritrean

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father who has been called by these

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migrants for they died . And he said

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that he called the NATO command in

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Naples uh to alert to alert to the

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Naples command that there was this uh

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this ship adrift . And there are other

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reports saying that also the Coast

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Guard , the italian Coast Guard was

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aware of the position of this ship . So

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according to you , how does it come

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that nobody knew about it ? And NATO

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didn't know about it ? Well , again ,

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you're talking about some reports that

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I've read . But again , we have no

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evidence of NATO being directly

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involved in such operations . That what

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I can tell you for sure that every time

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NATO has been directly involved in such

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events and it happened at least a

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couple of times at the end of March ,

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the NATO ships captain did all he had

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to do according to the international

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maritime laws and traditions to rescue

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the people . So , uh , so you didn't

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receive any alert on this ship ? We

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have I have no evidence of having

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received such alerts . Okay , thank you .

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Now we move back to brussels , please ,

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here ? Yes , I'm

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Brooke singer jane's defence . Um , I

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wanted to come back to this , uh ,

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incidents of killing the snipers that

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you did . Uh , if you have no people on

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the ground , then how do you know that

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the snipers you hit with precision

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bombs ? We're not rebels or Misurata

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citizens taking revenge on Gaddafi

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forces and their civilian sympathizers .

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Thank you . Okay , we have we're

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all our actions are based on solid

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information that we have . So to the

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best of our knowledge is those those

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troops were were more it was more than

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clear that those troops were attacking

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civilians downtown Misrata .

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Yes , you said troops , but if you fire

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a bomb on a person inside a building ,

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you can't tell if he's wearing a

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uniform or not . Right .

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I remind you that the mandate we've

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been given by United Nations is to

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protect civilians from the attacks from

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the threat of attacks . And to the best

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of our knowledge is those people up

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there in that roof were shelling at

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civilians and that's more than enough

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for to fulfill the mandate .

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You please give us a bit of details

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about when you say we will behave

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according to the rules and the

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traditions . If we meet migrants , when

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you say rescue , you mean you give them

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food and water or do they stand a

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chance to board a NATO ship if their

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ship is in distress , do they have any

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chance to do that ? If they get on on

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on a ship , they have a chance to apply

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for declared that they want to apply

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for asylum . And finally , do you have

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any legal base or anything to bring

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people back to Tunisia ? As allegedly

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some of these groups were offered to

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buy NATO ships ships ? Well , that's an

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that's an excellent question . But as

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you will realize from my dressing , I'm

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not , I'm not an expert in maritime

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rules and laws . So what I can tell you

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that the NATO captains know exactly

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what to do in such situations . And

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again , we should base all the

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assumptions on real facts and not on so

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on those reports . I mean , we've heard

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many lots of reports . So first , it's

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a good idea to double check them . But

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again , when NATO has been directly

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involved , nobody has complained about

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that as the

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General Justice are fully aware of the

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responsibilities under the

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International maritime law and we will

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continue doing everything in line with

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the international maritime law . So

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this needs to be clear . right .

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Um David Brunnstrom from Reuters one .

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Or we could just follow up on the

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question that was asked earlier in

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Italy , because we didn't actually hear

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the response to it , which was I think ,

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uh do you have any evidence to suggest

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whether Gaddafi is alive or dead at

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this stage ? Well ,

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I say again , we have no evidence about

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what Mr Gaddafi is doing right now ,

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and I tell you the truth , we're not

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really interested in what he's doing .

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Our mandate is to protect civilians

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from the attacks and from the threat of

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attacks . So we're not looking after

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individuals to add that we are not

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target targeting a specific individuals ,

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but solely military targets solely

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military targets . Next question

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please then ,

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concert from tv news . Uh my question

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is quite simple . Do you consider that

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Mr Gaddafi is an objective as

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command and control , not as an

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individual , because if you say we're

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not targeting individuals , I

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understand , but it's hard for me to

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understand that Gaddafi is not a

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command and control center , even if it

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is an individual and the individual .

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And not aside , all right

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now again , our mandate is clear to

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protect the population from the attacks .

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So we're not NATO is not targeting

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individuals . Known individuals is a

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target for NATO . We only look after

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command and Control Centre because we

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want the targets were after is to stop

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Mr Gaddafi to give orders to his troops

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to keep slaughtering the civilians and

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to prevent a humanitarian aid to to to

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enter the country . So again , we don't

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really we're not really interested in

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individuals , not not in Mr Gaddafi's

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life were after the command and Control

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centers . As a second part of the broad

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campaign I was talking about first , we

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had to stabilize the situation in most

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parts of the of the country and then we

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could move to the next step , which is

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preventing the regime forces to give

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orders to the troops on the field .

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Have time for two more questions , one

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in Naples , one in brussels , Naples

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Rich ,

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we have one question . Thank you again .

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Uh santa Paulo santos from Associated

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Press . Uh , last week in Rome . The

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world has been the contact group for

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for Libya and the minister , the french

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foreign Affairs Minister , you pay said

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that according to him uh the mission in

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fact protected could could last still a

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few months . Uh can you comment on

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this , do you think , is it just a

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matter of months ? Well