NATO FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING, BERLIN
NATO ministers of Foreign Affairs will hold meetings in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 April 2011. I'll be there for @bbcnews and will be live-tweeting and storifying.
- The hacks are heading for Tegel, the technicians are derigging and we're wrapping up at the end of day 2 in Berlin.Here's how we reported the day on BBC Radio 4 at 1800 BST.
All Quiet on the Western Front - By Stephen CastleBRUSSELS — During the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s, NATO's Brussels headquarters had something of the feeling of a battlefield encampment. Member states dispatched top strategists to Belgium to confer with one another and with the international press. Journalists from around the world crammed themselves by the hundreds every day into a gloomy auditorium to digest and challenge the latest spin, not only at the daily briefings, but also afterward, well into the night. As the alliance's pu...
RUSI - Libya: Is NATO Doing Enough?The unexpected complaint by a senior rebel General that NATO is having no effect in Libya was tantamount to an accusation of failure. This clearly ignored the military situation before the allied intervention, the damage subsequently inflicted on Gaddafi's military capabilities and the rebels' poor prospects if the coalition stopped flying over Libya. Frustrated by NATO's reluctance to bomb targets the rebels had identified in Misratah, anxious about the ongoing crisis there, and possibl...UPDATE 2-NATO and UK hopeful on Libya strike aircraft | News by Country | Reuters
* NATO leader says has indications nations will deliver * Italy rules out ordering its planes to open fire * France says wants to extend strikes to logistics centres (Adds NATO leader, UK and
#nato foreign ministers meeting - final communique Joint statement at the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine (cont) tl.gd/9s37np
Nato and Libya: What now?BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus asks how a disunited Nato can deal with the Libya conflict.- The view from the ground - from Orla Guerin in Misrata.
Inside a crowded Misrata hospitalRebels in the central city of Misrata are still holding out but the stand-off between Gaddafi's forces and the opposition is costing civilians their lives.- Hot off the laptop and unedited - here's our interview with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in full.
- Just back from i/v with #nato sec gen Rasmussen. Here's the copy I've filed. From Stuart Hughes, World (cont) tl.gd/9s2abf
The World from Berlin: 'Airstrikes Alone Won't Topple Gadhafi' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - InternationalDuring their summit in Berlin, NATO foreign ministers have failed to make much progress on how to proceed with its mission in Libya. German commentators warn that a lack of resolve against Moammar Gadhafi could reveal the alliance as an impotent relic of the Cold War.- BBC News Interview with British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
- BREAKING: Copy just filed - @williamjhague talks to @bbcnews about #libya From Stuart Hughes, World Affairs (cont) tl.gd/9rv3ng
- Talk among the international community of regime change in Libya is pushing the story forward today in Berlin.
Cameron, Obama and Sarkozy on Libya: 'We won't stop bombing until Gaddafi's gone'The three leaders wrote a joint article saying it would be an 'unconscionable betrayal' were Nato to stop bombing while the dictator was still in power.
Western allies thinking beyond UN Libya resolution France - Channel NewsAsiaThe United States, Britain and France are thinking beyond the current UN resolution authorising action to protect Libyan civilians and now seek regime change, France's defence minister said Friday.- Was hoping for a quiet day today but the Obama/Cameron/Sarko letter has pushed us back onto the news agenda.We're getting comment from the British Foreign Secretary William Hague shortly and will be interviewing the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at 1400BST.
Letter on Libya: Full textFull text of a letter to international newspapers by the presidents of the US and France, and the prime minister of the UK.- This will be shaping the news agenda on Libya tomorrow....
