SA, US battle over Libya's 1.5 billion

NOTE: Yeah right the United States and United Nations want to use the 1.5 billion for humanitarian aid etc....I SHOUT OUT NONSENSE!!!  The Illuminati and world bankers have an agenda and they need that money, the same as the money that was raised for Haiti's earthquake, it was not used for the purpose it was said it would be used for!  That money gets put into their own pockets so that they can continue to work towards a NEW WORLD ORDER!  One World Government!  I have posted a confession on this blog from an Illuminati banker who was dieing of cancer and he confessed last year that the World Bankers, Masons and Illuminati needed a crisis to take place in the north african countries and in 2011 looked what happened!  There is alot of manipulation taking place concerning what is taking place in the African Countries, our economy, the world markets and the current crisis with the Dollar and Euro! WAKE UP PEOPLE AND TURN TO YAHSHUA/JESUS, everything in the Bible is being fullfilled and Jesus is coming back.  Those who have trusted in Him to eternal salvation and those who refuse Him will experience the Judgement to come!  There is a false Messiah that will appear before Jesus's return and many will follow him and be decieved, DON'T BE DECIEVED! 

Iafrica.com News - http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/748598.html
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 8:00


The United States and South Africa locked horns at the UN Security Council on Wednesday over a US bid to unfreeze $1.5-billion of Libyan assets to provide humanitarian aid.

The United States set a Thursday deadline for South Africa to lift a block on releasing the funds, saying that if there was deadlock it would seek a Security Council vote on a resolution demanding that the money be made available "as soon as possible".

South Africa insisted the council wait for the African Union to decide whether to recognise the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) at a summit Thursday before approving the US move.

Negotiations between the two sides and other members of the 15 nation council were expected to go on until the US deadline of 3pm (1900 GMT) on Thursday.

The diplomatic battle went ahead as European nations and the United States drew up a separate, broader UN resolution on how the United Nations can help Libya once the conflict between Muammar Gaddafi and opposition rebels ends.

The United States asked the UN's Libya sanctions committee for permission to release $1.5-billion of assets held by the US government on 8 August, US officials said.

Some countries raised concerns that the US administration says it has answered. South Africa has continued to block the US initiative which US diplomats say is now "urgent" because of growing shortages in Libya.

The money would not be used for military purposes, according to the US resolution. Western diplomats said it would be channeled through the rebel government, non-government groups and an international fund for Libya to buy fuel and other humanitarian supplies.

"We still hope that this can be settled through consensus in the next 24 hours," Mark Kornblau, spokesperson for the US mission at the United Nations told reporters after Security Council consultations Wednesday.

"If it is not, the plan is to have a vote tomorrow on the resolution," he added, highlighting "the urgent humanitarian needs on the ground."

South Africa's UN ambassador Baso Sangqu said "all 15 members are concerned about the humanitarian crisis, whether in Tripoli or in Benghazi. We want to ensure that we follow due process, follow the rule of law."

"We are proposing simply that we give ourselves time, the AU is meeting tomorrow to make a determination on Libya, to take a decision on the recognition of the NTC or otherwise."

South Africa is a key member of the AU and has played a central role in AU efforts to mediate in the Libya crisis.

South Africa fears that "when you release this money to any side that is aligned to a conflict, you could be one way or another recognising that entity as legal."

The Security Council imposed sanctions, including freezing the assets of Libyan state entities, in resolutions passed in February and March to put pressure on Gaddafi's government.

South Africa has approved $500-million of the package, which would go to non-government groups, a diplomat from the country said.

It still has doubts about money that would go directly to Libya's transitional council, which is still not fully recognised by the international community. The African Union is to give a sign of its attitude at its summit in Addis Ababa.

The United States and European nations say that the UN must quickly move to change the sanctions to help the National Transitional Council, which many Western governments now recognize.

The UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul Ilah al-Khatib and Ian Martin, the leader of a UN team planning for post-conflict Libya, are in Doha holding talks with the rebel government.

A Western diplomat said that if the transitional government quickly defeats Gaddafi and establishes itself as the government in Tripoli, the Security Council could pass a resolution on Libya allowing for a UN operation in the country and definitively ending sanctions.