Written by The Fact's Daily 22/02/2011
breaded in a treaty of friendship, partnership and cooperation with Libya, very demanding, the responsibility falls on all political parties which ratify it in 2009 - majority and the Democratic Party in favor, IDV, UDC and counter-radical, Italy can not take an active role in this confusing and dramatic phase of protests and unrest, violence and repression. And the friendship between Prime Minister Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi almost paralyzed, instead of making the protagonist: the treaty has a provision, Article 6, which commits the parties to act in conformity with human rights, therefore, urge the Libyan leader to fulfill his commitment would not be by the President of the Council, no interference or noise, but a reminder of the covenants. Signed in Benghazi
August 30, 2008, ratified by the Senate on a final 3 February 2009, the Treaty consists of a preamble, three chapters-general principles, closure of the disputes of the past and new bilateral partnership, and 23 articles, resulting in charges is not indifferent to Italy. In this situation, then, the implementation of certain provisions is particularly delicate.
An example: Article 20 deals with cooperation in the defense sector and provides for "the exchange of missions of experts, instructors and technicians and the military intelligence, as well as undertaking joint operations" and even "a strong and broad industry partnership in the field of defense and military industries. Slippery steps today, with the risk that weapons or Italian techniques are used to suppress the protests with force. Not to mention the embarrassment already caused by the presence of financiers on board a patrol boat was sold to Libya by Italy in the agreement, where we talk about the fight against illegal immigration, chasing 'a Sicilian fishing vessel and shot' at him.
And note that Article 19, just as combating illegal immigration requires that the whole operation is made at no cost to Libya: Italy is paying 50% and 50% should pay 's European Union. They play a battle with naval units and given to block the flow of Eritreans and other unfortunates out of their coasts.
But the whole system of this Treaty is at risk in the current situation of uncertainty and violence: a partnership can 'only be operated in a normal social and economic context, and certainly not inconceivable that the dispute over unpaid debts make progress in these situations: at stake are 620 million euro, while the compensation Italians expelled from Libya seem to finally be 'passed in the cavalry'.
The basic problem is that Italy has failed to bear fruit in Tripoli influence on the whole weight of the Treaty and of intense economic and trade relations: Italy to Libya, is the first economic partner and the third European investor and is present in the country with over one hundred companies (While Libya participates with its capital in many Italian companies, the Juventus-dall'Unicredit via the Fiat-). Instead of influence, Italy seems to have developed subjection, against the colonel and his regime, instead of acquiring the strength of relations capacity for initiative, suffers a paralyzing effect, such as fear of jeopardizing business.
And, in fact, yesterday, in Brussels, the position taken by the Minister Frattini, worried, like Malta and the Czech Republic, to protect 'territorial integrity' of Libya, has been perceived, in diplomatic terms, as more ' articulate "than the tough British and German Finland wanted to do even while taking sanctions against Gaddafi ("We think the transition, not crare conditions for a new confrontation with tens of thousands of EU citizens in Libya," he smozato Frattini).
Anxiety integrity can not 'be born only by the difficulties that would result in a reconciliation of the Treaty in the event of the birth of two states, modeled on Tripoli and Cyrenaica. Of course, there is also the fear of 'bomb immigration, which certainly does not minimize Frattini in front of colleagues fears flows "epochal" and "unimaginable" and suggests "hundreds of thousands of people" fleeing the coast of Libya, because they ' "We are on the brink of civil war."
In the end, Italy accepts and adopts the European formula, condemning the violence by any party to come, and calls for "a national dialogue of reconciliation." And now, after the EU condemns the violence, Gaddafi can 'still be the privileged interlocutor of the Italian government? "The fate of the Libyan leader will not be decided neither Italy nor Europe, do not tell us who should stay and who must go, we did not start with Mubarak and to do so now." It 's true, we are out of time to keep their distance from the Colonel, had to think about it, Americans and Europeans together, eight years ago when the 'duty paid' in exchange for a lentil soup.
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