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Proceeding contribution from Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 5 September 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Libya.


Libya

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. What we are doing at the moment is taking through parts of unfreezing assets on an ad hoc basis through the UN Security Council. We were able to unfreeze the Libyan dinars printed by De La Rue in this country, and we can now distribute them back to the Libyan people. As for making sure that they are properly received, as I said in my statement there should be a proper accounting and transparency initiative in Libya. As for a more general asset release, we need a new UN resolution, and we are pushing for it, but we do not want to lose what we have at the moment, which is a UN resolution that enables the NATO mission to go on protecting civilians. It is a balance: we want to get both those things so that the assets can be unfrozen more broadly.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
532 c43-4 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Assets Armed conflict Finance Intelligence services Politics and government Terrorism United Nations Torture UN resolutions NATO Reconstruction Libya Gaddafi, Muammar al Megrahi, Abdelbasit Ali Mohmed Fletcher, Yvonne
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