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QUESTION NO: 2054 (NW2303E_
PUBVLISHED IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 21-2011 OF 5 AUGUST 2011
MR LS NGONYAMA (COPE-NA) TO ASK THE MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND
COOPERATION OF THE RESPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA:
1. What is her departmentâs position with regard to President Muammar
Gaddafi after he rejected the African Union solutions presented to him
by President Jacob Zuma;
2. What steps is her department taking to avoid a long drawn out conflict
between President Muammar Gaddafi and the NATO forces?
REPLY:
1. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has accepted the African Union Roadmap
presented to him by the African Union ad hoc High Level Committee on
Libya.
2. The Department, Deputy Ministers, Minister and President have
consistently spoken out against NATOâs violation of the mandate of
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 in seeking regime
change and the resultant loss of civilian lives as it continues its
bombing campaign of Tripoli. The NATO issue has been raised by the
President with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron as well as
during a meeting with Russian President Demitry Medvedev which was
also attended by the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
South Africa will continue to raise this issue in an attempt to
prevent further loss of civilian lives and in seeking the adoption and
implementation of the African Union Roadmap in by all parties
involved in the Libyan conflict.
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