PARIS – France insisted on Thursday that NATO air strikes against Moamer Gaddafi’s forces in Libya are being carried out in “strict accordance” with the terms of a UN Security Council resolution. Paris was reacting after emerging powers Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa urged that “force be avoided” in Libya, and Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said the Security Council had not authorised military action.
“Firstly, France’s action is carried out in strict accordance with US Security Council Resolution 1973,” French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told reporters in Paris. Valero said the resolution was passed as “a mobilisation in favour of the Libyan people, who are persecuted by Moamer Gaddafi, whose son promised his people rivers of blood.”
