{"id":6124,"date":"2011-12-15T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/un-chief-defends-nato-from-critics-of-libya-war\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:18:59","slug":"un-chief-defends-nato-from-critics-of-libya-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/un-chief-defends-nato-from-critics-of-libya-war\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief defends NATO from critics of Libya war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ban sides with U.S., France, UK against Russia, China<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ban: NATO operation adhered &#8220;strictly&#8221; to UN mandate<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* UN chief urges international action on Syria<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Louis Charbonneau<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS &#8211; U.N. Secretary-General Ban<br \/>\nKi-moon on Wednesday defended NATO against criticism<br \/>\nfrom Russia, China and other countries that accuse the alliance<br \/>\nof overstepping its U.N. mandate to protect civilians in Libya.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was an unusual move by the cautious head of the United<br \/>\nNations, who will complete his first five-year term at the end<br \/>\nof the month and begin his second term in January. Ban has<br \/>\nrarely taken public positions that pit him some permanent<br \/>\nmembers of the 15-nation Security Council against others.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security Council resolution 1973, I believe, was strictly<br \/>\nenforced within the limit, within the mandate,&#8221; Ban told<br \/>\nreporters in New York. &#8220;This military operation done by the NATO<br \/>\nforces was strictly within (resolution) 1973.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe this is what we have seen, and there should be no<br \/>\nmisunderstanding on that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Resolution 1973, adopted in March 2011, authorized U.N.<br \/>\nmember states to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and take &#8220;all<br \/>\nnecessary measures&#8221; to protect civilians threatened by the<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators inspired<br \/>\nby &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Ban sides with U.S., France, UK against Russia, China * Ban: NATO operation adhered &#8220;strictly&#8221; to UN mandate * UN chief urges international action on Syria By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS &#8211; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday defended NATO against criticism from Russia, China and other countries that accuse the alliance of overstepping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}