Tag: NATO

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 23:26 UTC

  Arab League calls on UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Libya

  

  The Arab League threw its support behind calls for a no-fly zone over Libya on Saturday as the Libyan military closed in on the opposition. The League urged on Saturday the United Nations to close Libyan airspace, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued using war planes to bombard the country's rebels.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 19:50 UTC

  British PM David Cameron “the doctrine of state multiculturalism has failed”

  

  Britain’s Prime Minister identified segregation and separatism as key issues behind the threat of Islamic extremism and called for a “shared national identity”.
  Speaking at the Munich Security Conference PM Cameron stressed the difference between Islam as a religion and Islamic extremism as a political ideology, and said that Western countries need to confront extremism rather than practice a “hands-off tolerance”.

• Thursday, September 16th 2010 - 01:50 UTC

  NATO presence in South Atlantic “inappropriate” says Brazil

  

  Brazilian Defence Minister Nelson Jobim assured that the Brazilian government would express reservations towards any military plan intending to unite the North with the South Atlantic.