NATO reiterated that Libya did not ground forces

NATO will not send troops on the ground, although it has increased the air strikes on Libya Apache attack helicopter, its nuclear arsenal, the head of the military alliance said Monday.

 

"Let me emphasize that we have no intention on the ground boots," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an interview, told CBS television said the army would continue to work with the EU's target of its air operations "in order to fully implement the United Nations tasks and the protection of civilians in Libya. "

 

British Apache attack helicopters and France on Saturday participated in the first air raid, an effort to end the ground in Libya, where the opposition unable to make much progress in the deadlock.

 

Rasmussen reiterated that NATO's military objectives, the three Libyan - - a complete end to all attacks on civilians, army bases and barracks of their withdrawal, and "immediate and unimpeded access to humanitarian assistance" as a need.

 

"We will continue our operations until they reach those goals," he declared, and stressed the parallel political track is also underway, in which the international community has on the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lot of pressure on him to step down.

 

"It's hard to imagine, as long as attacks against civilians, complete end, he was still in power," the NATO official said. "The fact is, we have significantly degraded his war machine. We see Libya. Gaddafi regime against the advance more and more isolated every day.