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<\/p>\nFriday 15 April 2011<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy have written a joint article on Libya\u00a0underlining their determination that Qadhafi\u00a0must \u201cgo and go for good\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Together with our NATO allies and coalition partners, the United States, France and Britain have been united at the UN Security Council, as well as the following Paris Conference, in building a broad-based coalition to respond to\u00a0 the crisis in Libya. We are equally united on what needs to happen in order to end it.<\/p>\n Even as we continue military operations today to protect civilians in Libya, we are determined to look to the future. We are convinced that better times lie ahead for the people of Libya, and a pathway can be forged to achieve just that.<\/p>\n We must never forget the reasons why the international community was obliged to act in the first place. As Libya descended into chaos with Colonel Qadhafi attacking his own people, the Arab League called for action. The Libyan opposition called for help. And the people of Libya looked to the world in their hour of need. In an historic Resolution, the United Nations Security Council authorised all necessary measures to protect the people of Libya from the attacks upon them.\u00a0 By responding immediately, our countries\u00a0 halted the advance of Qadhafi\u2019s forces. The bloodbath that he had promised to inflict upon the citizens of the besieged city of Benghazi has been prevented.<\/p>\n Tens of thousands of lives have been protected.\u00a0 But the people of Libya are suffering terrible horrors at Qadhafi\u2019s hands each and every day. His rockets and his shells rained down on defenceless civilians in Ajdabiya. The city of Misrata is enduring a mediaeval siege, as Qadhafi tries to strangle its population into submission.\u00a0\u00a0 The evidence of disappearances and abuses grows daily.<\/p>\n Our duty and our mandate under UN Security Council Resolution 1973 is to protect civilians, and we are doing that. It is not to remove Qadhafi by force.\u00a0 But it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with Qadhafi in power.\u00a0 The International Criminal Court is rightly investigating the crimes committed against civilians and the grievous violations of international law.\u00a0 It is unthinkable that someone who has tried to massacre his own people can play a part in their future government. The brave citizens of those towns that have held out against forces that have been mercilessly targeting them would face a fearful vengeance if the world accepted such an arrangement.\u00a0 It would be an unconscionable betrayal.<\/p>\n Furthermore, it would condemn Libya to being not only a pariah state, but a failed state too.\u00a0 Qadhafi has promised to carry out terrorist attacks against civilian ships and airliners.\u00a0 And because he has lost the consent of his people any deal that leaves him in power would lead to further chaos and lawlessness.\u00a0 We know from bitter experience what that would mean.\u00a0 Neither Europe, the region, or the world can afford a new safe haven for extremists.<\/p>\n There is a pathway to peace that promises new hope for the people of Libya.\u00a0 A future without Qadhafi that preserves Libya\u2019s integrity and sovereignty, and restores her economy and the prosperity and security of her people.\u00a0 This needs to begin with a genuine end to violence, marked by deeds not words.\u00a0 The regime has to pull back from the cities it is besieging, including Ajdabiya, Misrata and Zintan, and their forces return to their barracks. However, so long as Qadhafi is in power, NATO and its coalition partners must maintain their operations so that civilians remain protected and the pressure on the regime builds.\u00a0 Then a genuine transition from dictatorship to an inclusive constitutional process can really begin, led by a new generation of leaders.\u00a0 In order for that transition to succeed, Colonel Qadhafi must go and go for good.\u00a0 At that point, the United Nations and its members should help the Libyan people as they rebuild where Qadhafi has destroyed \u2013 to repair homes and hospitals, to restore basic utilities, and to assist Libyans as they develop the institutions to underpin a prosperous and open society.<\/p>\n This vision for the future of Libya has the support of a broad coalition of countries, including many from the Arab world.\u00a0 These countries came together in London on 29 March and founded a Contact Group which met this week in Doha to support a solution to the crisis that respects the will of the Libyan people.<\/p>\n Today, NATO and its coalition partners are acting in the name of the United Nations with an unprecedented international legal mandate.\u00a0 But it will be the people of Libya, not the UN, that choose their new constitution, elect their new leaders, and write the next chapter in their history.<\/p>\n Britain, France and the United States will not rest until the United Nations Security Council resolutions have been implemented and the Libyan people can choose their own future.<\/p>\n The Prime Ministers Office<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Number 10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday 15 April 2011 Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy have written a joint article on Libya\u00a0underlining their determination that Qadhafi\u00a0must \u201cgo and go for good\u201d. 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