NATO to hold emergency meeting on Libya
Baku, February 25 (AZERTAC). NATO`s chief has called for an emergency NATO council meeting for Friday afternoon to discuss the situation in Libya, according to foreign press.
“I have convened an emergency meeting in the NATO council this afternoon to consult on this fast-moving situation. So I will return to Brussels in a few hours,” NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the wire service in an interview.
In the interview, he said the more immediate priority would be given to evacuation “and possibly humanitarian assistance.”
“It`s a bit premature to go into specifics but it`s well-known that NATO has assets that can be used in a situation like this and NATO can act as an enabler and coordinator if and when individual member states want to take action,” Rasmussen said in the interview.
The meeting is likely to discuss “a range of options” for NATO action in the Mediterranean, including coordinating rescue and evacuation operations between individual nations, diplomats in Brussels said.
Other news in this section
