Libya: government doing all it can to assist britons

News story LIBYA: GOVERNMENT DOING ALL IT CAN TO ASSIST BRITONS Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Government will do everything it can to evacuate the remaining British nationals

stranded in Libya. This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government Mr Cameron said Britons should “leave now” and promised more flights if

necessary.  He said the Government was sending a second Royal Navy ship, HMS York, to the area. Speaking in Downing Street after National Security Council and COBRA emergency planning

committee meetings, the PM said: > We will do everything we can today and tomorrow to help those people > and planning is under way to do just that. >  > In the last 24 hours 

there have been six flights that have left > Libya and that is good, and there will be more on the way if > necessary. >  > HMS Cumberland has now come out of Benghazi, bringing 

many, many > British citizens out of Benghazi and we have also helped citizens of > 25 other countries. I have also asked HMS York to go into the area > and help out if necessary.

>  > But I would say that people do need to leave now and that is the > message that I give very strongly to British citizens in Libya. >  > For those in the desert, we will 

do everything we can and we are > active on that right now to help get you out. Mr Cameron also said the violence was ”appalling and unacceptable” and that the world would hold the regime

to account. > Britain, through the United Nations, is pressing for asset seizures, > for travel bans, for sanctions, for all of the things that we can do > to hold those people to 

account, including investigating for > potential crimes against humanity, or war crimes, or crimes against > their people. >  > People working for this regime should remember 

that international > justice has a long reach and a long memory and they will be held to > account for what they do. Last night Mr Cameron spoke to President Barack Obama to discuss

possible multilateral measures against Libya including at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday. They also agreed to work together closely on the continuing evacuation of foreign nationals.

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TO THIS PAGE Published 25 February 2011