Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims U.S. criticism of Libyan baton Moammar Gadhafi has a bright aim: aggressive invasion.
"Let's not get agitated abroad by the drums of war, because the United States, I am abiding that they are exaggerating and distorting things to absolve an invasion," Chavez said Monday, according to Venezuelan accompaniment media.
At a Monday affair of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary
of Accompaniment Hillary Clinton said the United States was exploring "all accessible options," and that "nothing is off the table so continued as the Libyan government continues to abuse and annihilate Libyan citizens."
Asked at a account appointment Monday whether the United States planned an approaching aggressive acknowledgment in Libya, Clinton said, "No."
Speaking Monday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, Chavez proposed sending an all-embracing board to Libya to arbitrate and advice advance a peaceful band-aid to agitation in the North African country.
"Instead of sending Marines and tanks and planes, why don't we accelerate a amicableness agency to try to advice so that they do not abide killing in Libya? They are our brothers," he said in a accent televised on the government-run network.
Chavez and Gadhafi accept a abutting relationship, accepting affirmed partly over aggregate action to U.S. all-around influence.
At a abundant Tripoli anniversary commemorating 40years of Gadhafi's administration in 2009, the two leaders sat ancillary by ancillary during a two-hour aggressive parade. That aforementioned year, a new football amphitheater in Benghazi, Libya, was called afterwards the Venezuelan leader.
As rumors swirled about Gadhafi and his abode aftermost week, some appropriate that he may be en avenue to Venezuela. Those letters accepted to be false; the Libyan baton after batten about in Tripoli.
But the abutting ties amid the two leaders abide strong. On Monday, Chavez said Gadhafi "has been my acquaintance and our acquaintance for a continued time" in animadversion advertisement on Venezuelan accompaniment television.
"We charge be cautious. We apperceive what our action is: We do not abutment invasions, or massacres, or anything, no amount who does it. But there is no agnosticism that, apropos Libya, a attack of lies is actuality alloyed -- the aforementioned that has been alloyed about Venezuela for a continued time," he said.
The U.N. Security Council over the weekend voted for boxy restrictions and accessible war crimes accuse adjoin the Libyan regime.
The Security Council measures --which accommodate an accoutrements embargo, an asset benumb and biking bans for Gadhafi and assembly of his ancestors and assembly --additionally referred the bearings advance in Libya to the All-embracing Criminal Court.
White House columnist secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the U.S. government was because the achievability of arty a no-fly area over Libya.
"Col. Gadhafi and those about him charge be captivated answerable for these acts, which breach all-embracing acknowledged obligations and accepted decency. Through their actions, they accept absent the angary to govern," Clinton said Monday.
"And the bodies of Libya accept fabricated themselves clear: It is time for Gadhafi to go, now, after added abandon or delay."
Asked at a account appointment Monday whether the United States planned an approaching aggressive acknowledgment in Libya, Clinton said, "No."
Speaking Monday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, Chavez proposed sending an all-embracing board to Libya to arbitrate and advice advance a peaceful band-aid to agitation in the North African country.
"Instead of sending Marines and tanks and planes, why don't we accelerate a amicableness agency to try to advice so that they do not abide killing in Libya? They are our brothers," he said in a accent televised on the government-run network.
Chavez and Gadhafi accept a abutting relationship, accepting affirmed partly over aggregate action to U.S. all-around influence.
At a abundant Tripoli anniversary commemorating 40years of Gadhafi's administration in 2009, the two leaders sat ancillary by ancillary during a two-hour aggressive parade. That aforementioned year, a new football amphitheater in Benghazi, Libya, was called afterwards the Venezuelan leader.
As rumors swirled about Gadhafi and his abode aftermost week, some appropriate that he may be en avenue to Venezuela. Those letters accepted to be false; the Libyan baton after batten about in Tripoli.
But the abutting ties amid the two leaders abide strong. On Monday, Chavez said Gadhafi "has been my acquaintance and our acquaintance for a continued time" in animadversion advertisement on Venezuelan accompaniment television.
"We charge be cautious. We apperceive what our action is: We do not abutment invasions, or massacres, or anything, no amount who does it. But there is no agnosticism that, apropos Libya, a attack of lies is actuality alloyed -- the aforementioned that has been alloyed about Venezuela for a continued time," he said.
The U.N. Security Council over the weekend voted for boxy restrictions and accessible war crimes accuse adjoin the Libyan regime.
The Security Council measures --which accommodate an accoutrements embargo, an asset benumb and biking bans for Gadhafi and assembly of his ancestors and assembly --additionally referred the bearings advance in Libya to the All-embracing Criminal Court.
White House columnist secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the U.S. government was because the achievability of arty a no-fly area over Libya.
"Col. Gadhafi and those about him charge be captivated answerable for these acts, which breach all-embracing acknowledged obligations and accepted decency. Through their actions, they accept absent the angary to govern," Clinton said Monday.
"And the bodies of Libya accept fabricated themselves clear: It is time for Gadhafi to go, now, after added abandon or delay."
