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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973

Not for the moment. I say to the Government—and the Prime Minister will know this—it is incredibly important that the international community observe the terms of the resolution in its actions and in what it says. I shall not rehearse the arguments about past conflicts, but we all know that ambiguity about the case for intervention is often one of the biggest problems that a mission faces. The House should be clear about the degree of difficulty of what we are attempting in securing a coalition beyond western powers to support intervention in another north African state, so we cannot afford mission creep, and that includes in our public pronouncements.