Articles by Yevgeny Shestakov, Special to Russia Now
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Russia: NATO Has Overstepped UN Mandate on Libya
Yevgeny Shestakov, Special to Russia Now – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2011
At a Berlin meeting of NATO foreign ministers, Russia reiterated its stance that the western alliance’s Libya campaign has overstepped its UN mandate through use of excessive force. It also pressed home concerns in the ongoing issue of missile defences in Europe. “We consider that certain actions by NATO in Libya do not correspond to its mandate, and we would like to investigate this,” Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said after Friday’s [22 Apr 2011] talks.
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