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EUFOR Libya

  • 08-02-2012 12:15pm
    #1
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭


    The EU has said that it is ready for a EUFOR mission in Libya should the UN request it. Just a topic for conversation to work with as Ireland could end up being involved.

    What do people think? Lots of EU countries have already said they would participate.


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  • #2
    OS119
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    Link?

    sorry OP, could you clarify whether your post relates to Libya or Liberia?

    that said however, i don't see any Irish involvement in any Libyan mission - simply because the situation is chaotic and dangerous. the IA is busy - for the moment - in Lebanon, and there is no money for the kind of logistics train and equipment upgrades that would be required for a Libyan operation.


  • #3
    Poccington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭Poccington


    OS119 wrote: »
    Link?

    sorry OP, could you clarify whether your post relates to Libya or Liberia?

    that said however, i don't see any Irish involvement in any Libyan mission - simply because the situation is chaotic and dangerous. the IA is busy - for the moment - in Lebanon, and there is no money for the kind of logistics train and equipment upgrades that would be required for a Libyan operation.

    Well, I suppose one way they could see involvement would be if the EU decided to use one of the Battlegroup's, although it'd have to be used somewhere between July to December for any Irish troops to be involved.

    Logs etc. are looked after by other elements of the Battlegroup after all. Plus, it'd only be a Coy sized deployment from the DF.


  • #4
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    I'll try find where I read it later on as I was using a different computer and cant check my history. When I do I'll link it :)

    I wasn't even thinking about something like the nordic battle group I was thinking of Ireland contributing even a small amount of troops, maybe even so small as what they are doing in Afghanistan. The EU haven't proposed it as a mission that would involve a battle group. They have proposed it simply as a capability that they are ready to use IF the UN requests it in the future (maybe in a matter of years considering the Libya situation). A few countries have said that they would contribute. Spain, Belgium, UK and a lot more. Once I get the link up you can have a read yourselves.


  • #5
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    OS119 wrote: »
    Link?

    sorry OP, could you clarify whether your post relates to Libya or Liberia?

    that said however, i don't see any Irish involvement in any Libyan mission - simply because the situation is chaotic and dangerous. the IA is busy - for the moment - in Lebanon, and there is no money for the kind of logistics train and equipment upgrades that would be required for a Libyan operation.

    Sorry, I am talking about Libya. Sorry about the spelling mistake that confused things.


  • #6
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    Couldn't find the original link that said what countries had promised contribution but here's a link from an EU site explaining it. Its not really very recent news but still..

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/eeas/security-defence/eu-operations/eufor-libya?lang=en


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  • #7
    Turbine
    Site Banned Posts: 317 ✭✭Turbine


    KickstartHeart wrote: »
    Couldn't find the original link that said what countries had promised contribution but here's a link from an EU site explaining it. Its not really very recent news but still..

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/eeas/security-defence/eu-operations/eufor-libya?lang=en

    Look at the date of that press release, April 1st 2011. And the UN resolutions it mentions (1970 and 1973) were the ones adopted in February and March of last year that were used to impose the no-fly zone over Libya.

    This was the EU's response when Gaddafi was still in control of Libya, this is old news...

    There's no EUFOR mission planned for Libya.


  • #8
    KickstartHeart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭KickstartHeart


    Turbine wrote: »
    Look at the date of that press release, April 1st 2011. And the UN resolutions it mentions (1970 and 1973) were the ones adopted in February and March of last year that were used to impose the no-fly zone over Libya.

    This was the EU's response when Gaddafi was still in control of Libya, this is old news...

    There's no EUFOR mission planned for Libya.

    This isn't the original article that I read, but I do stand corrected. The article that I read was not in relation to the no-fly zone or anything like that. It was plans for a ground operation in order to get civilians out of danger and to try to secure peace, and it WAS from 2011. But the mission was planned. I knew it was old news as I said, but I didn't know it was that old. So I assume the whole thing is off the cards anyway.

    Sorry about all that. My mistake.


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