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and by and when you go to tears and mr. i believe in this way can be supported you have always tried to find allies allies that is who have a permanent seat on the un security council plus those who play a very important role in the future of libya we invited 12 member states 12 invitees. permanent. the permanent members of the security council plus egypt united arab emirates italy congo. algeria. and we are all. in saying that the. european commission or european council the league of nations and also the african union that we all believe that a political solution will be necessary i think it has become a very obvious over the past few weeks and months that it cannot possibly be a military solution to this conflict this will only increase the suffering of the
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libyan people we agreed that. a comprehensive plan will be outlined and i would like to here in particular recognize and thank you mr salim 820 we believe that we from the german side have also given a contribution the foreign minister and myself but i think i can safely say that all of the participants to this conference have worked very constructively and very diligently on bringing this matter forward i think we can safely say that we are all in agreement that the arms embargo is we want to see the arms about you see respected that it will be monitored more closely and more rigorously than in the past if that does not happen we will see time and again that this military solution is not excluded but that people are trying to use military means and we were all at one in saying that the governments we adopted today. and that will be
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excess will need to be accepted by the security council of the united nations so that there is an official international blessing for the commitments that were entered into and that the arms embargo again is given and enhance profile to this we know. today's meeting obviously will not solve all of the problems of libya as i said we wanted to give a new impetus and it was most important that the libyan representatives present namely in general how start and present survived. where there. was to. be in on the next steps that need to be taken that the u.n. secretary general and mr saddam may have proposed namely the 5 plus 5 military committee now invitation will be extended to all of those who will sit on this committee and this needs to be the basis so that we can translate a truth into
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a consolidated cease fire there will it be invitations issued already next week this week that is and we hope that this step will then be taken by all concerned we received commitments by all of the participants that until this meeting of the 5 1st sight of committee the participants of the conference of today. commit themselves to not give any. support to these parties to the conflicts in the sense that they don't give any sort of military support to them that they also will not give them weapons so that the arms above is respected and that the truce holds i think we created a spirit today. that will enable us to pursue the track of this path forward that mr solomon had as a line that we have now a very binding process and later on there will certainly be. other comments on this
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so very closely follow all of those who have met today. will pursue this process and we will see to it that political solutions are found that the truth and the ceasefire then won't be kept because now what we see there on the ground is indeed a conflict that is fueled by proxies and we wouldn't want to turn the situation into a pro said that actually gives the people of libya a right to free to self-determination in peace and freedom and i am under no illusion that we have a box on a very difficult road indeed a very arduous road and we believe that right now there is there are controversial issues buz in libya itself we were at one in saying that in view of the terrible suffering we have seen in view of the terrible spread of terrorism to the side. it was justified to call for this meeting i would like to thank all of the participants to this conference for coming here for showing this very constructive
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atmosphere in which we work here together. so you know there. was an argument. i would like to express my deep gratitude to chancellor merkel and the german government for convening this conference the chancellor your consistent continues and i would say and to see as the commitment to support all the efforts to bring peace and stability to libya are absolutely remarkable and as secretary general of the united nations i want to express my very deep appreciation and gratitude. and today in berlin member states along with the regional and international guys asians have sent a strong signal that we are fully committed to supporting the peaceful resolution of the libyan crisis and that all me. briefly touched 3 points.
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first i cannot stress enough the summits conclusion that there is no military solution to the conflict in libya all participants have mentioned it several times during the meeting even those that are more directly involved in the conflict itself. and today all participants committed to refrain from interference in the armed conflict or internal affairs of libya these is part of the conclusions and of course these must be a dear too as well as the call to silence the guns with the 3rd nation of all military are still it is seconds we called on all actors to reframe from any exhibit is exacerbating the conflicts and i urge all participants and the international community to abide by their commitment to in equivocally and fully respect the implement the un security council arms embargo. served the return to
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the political process is essential. we are already in part is to engage in a leave you know and leave you have dialogue and of the auspices of united nations paving the way for a political solution to the crisis. i have to say that of the sri tracks that we find the economic track it is fully movie a 1st meeting of 22 economists took place in tunis a 2nd meeting is will take place in the next 2 or 3 weeks and they started to look into all the central aspects of the economic reform the country choirs namely the unification of the central bank the questions related to the investment authority to the national oil company and to all the other relevant aspects to make sure that it is possible to have normal economic governance in libya the 2nd track is the military community and thanks too but lee meeting it was possible today to receive
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the 5 military delegates side of muscle after we have already city and now we have 2 more of the side of the d.n.a. so we are now in conditions to convene in geneva the military committee in the next few days and finally there is good progress both stimulation to the. hospital preventatives and the state council for the choice of their representatives to the. political forum that will also include the number of names selected by the united nations special representative and we hope that that will also these political track to move forward in the near future. i also welcome the science call on all parties in media to fully respect international military and human rights law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and i hope the commitments made today will create the conditions for
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the last in solution of the cd of the libya crisis it is all collective responsibility to seize this opportunity and to ensure that these commitments become a reality and i want once again to thank just the merkel the german government and to send all of you for. your forgiveness counselor madam chancellor. and activia did silicon for the exhibit is a considerate and gentle teacher as a matter of hours count to having achieved the objectives that we staked out for this conference and we now have the key in our hands that will enable us to solve this conflict eventually now what we have to do is to use this to put it in the law and open its doors because we know only too well that the signature says that we have received today and the commitments we received today will not be sufficient there will be a full follow up committee that will be set and that will see to it that the
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commitments entered into will be translated into reality as work be accompanied and supported by some selami so there is a un led process at the beginning of february but already take up your wagon also states that have not been represented here today will be invited to this fall committee and this follow up process there are some good news from poland paul martin who said security military political and economic issues and humanitarian issues those will be that in some of these groups and the kickoff will. be given by us as hosts as coach out here in berlin and then later on all of the international partners present form. this conference will run but it will be then it will actually hold on the task the basis of rotation later on the results and the furthest steps to be taken will also be discussed in
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suitable bodies not only in the united nations but already tomorrow when we have the foreign ministers council of the european union. we are going to need to aware of the fact that work has only started it's going to be a very arduous about process will be a lot of wild and i think it was all the more important that this conference finally is agreed on these conclusions and the spirit of cooperation that we have felt very clearly today and that transcended certainly what we have seen in the past which had previous occasions. we hope will inspire people to get together the different parties of the conflict 1st and foremost obviously there has to be a truce and there has to be a ceasefire we have to pave the way for this civil war being translated into a political solution into durable peace for libya thank you.
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well. i have very little to add to what the 2nd general has said i would like to express again gratitude for the german authorities and madam mr mounts for the effort they have really. not been stingy with the past few months and all that to. push this process forward. that they should say in a meeting i have the honor of having with madam chancellor on the 15th of august and since then we have been working in order to get to where we are today as the secretary general said very very grateful for and to the support and the support of the foreign minister as well. i think the secretary general told you about this he tracks. the u.n. is trying to push forward what i would add is that doing these 9 months before the
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mission has never left libya. most of the diplomatic missions have left libya we stayed and we did i think remarkable humanitarian effort also beside our political activity and i thank all those countries we have been supporting us to help the i.d.p.'s and to help everybody and to stay on the ground despite all of the difficulties i think the libyans all the libyan this presence and i think i would presence was useful for them in this time of of difficulty now i'm thinking about to morrow i think that today was a great day to give us the boost and more out to keep going. i think everybody was but it's a bit in this conference. and i hope that the security council vote that the follow up committee will be by our side in the next. weeks to implement
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what has been agreed upon and that we thank you. don't come between friday and phone. let's turn to questions now mr blank t.p.a. . consummating to. the view from the from if you suppose my crime boss from hold of implementation of the need for implementation is the federal government already the federal government ready to assist in implementing the agreement of today in a practical way and could you perhaps also kindly describe to us. the way in which mr savage and mr have to have been included in the process that they both talked to you did they talk to get ready to talk to them individually did they attend the conference what we talked to them individually because the differences between the 2 parties are still of such a magnitude that the 2 parties don't speak to each other for the time being tired
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of the figure they did not want to simulate in the conference where they were only the arrows so to speak grandma geographical times they were not in the same room but they went bilin so as to allow us to brief them about the development of to negotiations and the discussions of today you know of course each and every one tends to expect the other side 1st and foremost to it to the commitments entered into but the main signal of our conference here idea behind the conference you know when i met mr salome on the 15th of august the idea where is that we need to succeed in getting all those parties that are somehow linked to the libya process and the developments in libya speak with one voice and that was the objective of today's conference and once that has been achieved the parties within libya will realize that it is only a nonmilitary approach towards a solution and it is the result wait for t.v. all have to go in equal degree and in the very same name amanat agreed to.
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doing just that let's take one step after the other and let's not start discussing the next incident but one some of the participants attending the conference today said that once a lasting cease fire has been achieved once general agreement has been achieved we might think about the monitoring of that ceasefire as we have come to see in other parts of the world but this is not and it has not been the subject of today's conference we did not discuss that that's in concrete terms to take this is about because you know the different paths and tracks. you have achieved a lasting cease fire and how to monitor and secure that cease fire will be a matter to discuss once we get there 2 days objective was to work for a cease fire for a truce that turns into a lasting cease fire then get 5 plus 5 military committed committed to me so that of both parties on the ground groups realize that there is only
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a political solution and not a military one and they've given us their names have appointed there as entities to the military commission so it's not an anonymous invitation that mr salami has to send out he knows the participants he has their names this is the 1st step in the direction of the operationalization of the process. that was the most important thing to achieve in order to get closer to a lasting cease fire mr pinkas. just a question because the importance of the agreement on the oil resources that was one of the important reasons why there was money available at all to purchase weapons how do you want to make sure that the militias. renounce the control of the oil fields and the oil facilities and installations and mr secretary-general a question addressed to you where do you see a pound for the europeans in the upcoming steps do you. expect the
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europeans to take over the matter of monitoring such a ceasefire do you think of others for such a task that you think that you have or perhaps to focus on the reconstruction of libya. now as far as the oil issues are concerned we still need to engage in discussions about that perhaps mr cashel mr salami might comment on this so perhaps the german foreign minister might wish to do so that of course this is also one of the preconditions that need to be fulfilled on the one hand we have to fairly distribute the income generated from the oil fields and oil resources but the other thing that we need to do is that all those that in one way or another are involved in the conflict have made it clear there is no military solution to the crisis so mr secretary general 1st you need to in your are very worried with the fact that. ports so harbors from where oil is exported. closed and one
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very important oil fields is also stopped production today. and obviously we believe that parts of a more comprehensive solution will have to be. an effective reform of the national oil company transparency established in the ways things are done and we hope that it will be possible to use that wish normality but of course it will depend on all the other tricks that the family. 1st we need to have a ceasefire we cannot monitor something that doesn't exist so we need to have a ceasefire we have a truce and one central question is that all the participants today could meet it to support the ceasefire and committed to put pressure on the parties to the conflict for the full ceasefire to be reached a 2nd one is that is a source cease fire we need to have a monitoring that's monitoring. can be established in different ways. it
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will of course. requires discussion with the parties to the conflict it has to be accepted by the parties of the conflict. will require eventually from the security council a clear decision and obviously eventually several international guys they should be involved it's to say the when of course is ready to play some role and to play its part but i believe europe will always a very very important role. in the diplomatic aspects of the opinion was present today and it has been very active in trying to create the conditions for peace to be reestablished in the country has been obviously very active in the preparation of the different tracks of supporting different tracks of what an honor to vittie and i hope that if seems move in the right direction you have to play a very. are you watching live coverage of the libya summit here in berlin they
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have reached some sort of agreement but it does not sound like there has been a full ceasefire announced joining me in studio mona heflin she is with didn't hear back 1st of all we have been outspent her to a bit of a question 1st what's your take what did you think of the press conference on the results that we heard i think that it's very interesting that the libyan party is didn't really. talk to each other and that the differences were so big when it's all about. and i know that there are external players in this whole conflict but the thing is it shows pretty much what would happen in the future because these are the essential the major players in the thing so if they can't agree how do the other countries want to agree so much talk of finding a political agreement or a political solution and yet the 2 sides couldn't even be in the same room together exactly. what else did you think i mean there were so much hope being placed on this summit in terms of finding some sort of peace deal do you think that that hope
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was fulfilled and what we just heard i think that in the end this is just talk at the end because what they have said that they have said we will now in command that no one will violate the u.n. embargo i mean how do you want to really even if there is a committee who will be part of the committee and how would this happen i think it's a very vague plan it sounds good but we will see how the countries that are really like russia like turkey turkey how how they would really do this if they really will stick to that or if they will break the rules as usual chancellor angela merkel playing a big role in getting this summit together we heard some of the players there including u.n. secretary general antonio guterres thanking her personally for arranging the understand we have a sound bite from america let's listen to what she had to say. i think we can save you say that we are all in agreement that the embargo is we want to see the
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arms of you see respected that it will be monitored more closely and more rigorously than in the past if that does not happen we will see time and again that this military solution is not excluded but that people are trying to use military means and we were all at one in saying that the documents we adopted today. will need to be accepted by the security council of the united nations we've been speaking about the weapons margaux this is a u.n. weapons and bargo it was an accident 2011 safe to say it was not respected i mean weapons are everywhere across libya so now we're hearing that all sides have agreed to respects and recommit themselves to that embargo what's your take on that i'm not sure about that because countries such as the emirates for example i think they will still keep on. giving drones to libya and exporting these these weapons i think the thing is also moscow is not really being very clear about its politics
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and i think in the end even like i've said before i think at the end it is it is something completely different what is being agreed upon on papers and reality in the end because rhetorical is not what these are all here but rather money and they called me to do a full course difference in berlin and a meeting room that is on the ground in libya now there were many different european players here leaders from from germany of course france has an interest italy as well where does this agreement do you think leave europe i mean does this make them perhaps more united than they were coming into the conference i'm not sure about that because you have within europe also some division like athens as for example. you know you know there has been a maritime agreement between turkey and tripoli about that gave turkey exclusive drilling rights. which is not really justified and legal and offenses against that then you have other countries who are supporting. tripoli so there is still
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a lot of conflict going on i don't think that in the end there will be an agreement made and that you will still be split about briefly if you can does this improve transfers for ceasefire. probably just on paper was probably ok what we did hear the there were some agreements made perhaps in some cases just agreeing to agree you but it is a 1st step to have me with a big thank you so much for analysis thank you. i have been bringing you special live coverage of the libya summit here in berlin stay tuned we'll be bringing you more updates as they come right here on news.
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is d w news live from berlin the world leaders saying they will hold an arms embargo and a pledge to help end the fighting in libya german chancellor angela merkel hosting key players in the long running conflict at a major summit here in berlin they've agreed to quote free frames from interfering in the war but will that change the situation on the ground.
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