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Proceeding contribution from Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 21 March 2011. It occurred during Debate on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.


United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973

A successful outcome is the enforcement of the will of the UN, which is the ceasing of attacks on civilians. That is what we are aiming at. But let me be absolutely frank about this: it is a more difficult question, in many ways, than the question over Iraq, because in Iraq we had been prepared to go into a country, knock over its Government and put something else in place. That is not the approach we are taking here. We are saying that there is a UN Security Council resolution to stop violence against civilians and to put in a UN no-fly zone, and then the Libyan people must choose their own future. The point I would make is that they have far more chance of choosing their own future today than they did 24 or 48 hours ago.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
525 c706 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Armed conflict Deployment Air force Legal opinion France Politics and government Military aircraft United Nations USA UN resolutions Civil disorder Libya League of Arab States Gaddafi, Muammar Ceasefires
Link
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