UN SC members have no disagreement over resolution on Libya.

UNITED NATIONS, February 26 (Itar-Tass) -- UN Security Council members
have no disagreement over the resolution for sanctions against Libya that
was submitted by the delegations of the United Kingdom and France on
Friday, the permanent representative of France at the UN, Gerard Araud,
told the media. The resolution can be adopted in the second half of the
day on Saturday, he said.
The draft resolution on Libya presented at the UN Security Council on
Friday, contains proposals for an arms embargo against Libya, as well as a
freeze on the assets of senior representatives of the country and bans on
their trips abroad. In addition, the draft document states that attacks
against innocent Libyans can be regarded as crimes against humanity. In
this case, they may be considered by the International Criminal Court in
The Hague.
Earlier, a statement for the press was made by the chairperson of the
Council in February, permanent representative of Brazil at the United
Nations Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, who said that the UN Security Council
members were deeply concerned about the deteriorating situation in Libya,
especially the large number of civilian casualties. The UN Security
Council's members call for an immediate cessation of violence, she said.
In addition, the UN Security Council members called on the Libyan
authorities to ensure the safety of all foreigners and provide an
opportunity for everyone (the citizens of other states) leave the country,
Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti said. The Council welcomes the tougher stance
taken by the Arab League and the African Union (towards the situation in
Libya), the Brazilian diplomat added.
At Friday's meeting of the UN Security Council UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon called on the members of the Security Council to take action
against the government of Libya. The time has come for the Security
Council to consider specific action against the Libyan leadership, Ban
said. In his opinion, it is necessary to introduce trade sanctions,
including travel bans and a freeze on the assets of members of the current
Libyan leadership.
The UN secretary-general also said that clashes in Libya had left dead
about 1,000 people, including foreign nationals.

.Military prosecutor blames growing hazing in army on street habits.

MOSCOW, February 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Extortion and misappropriation of
mobile phones are increasingly the cause of violence in the barracks,
Russia's chief military prosecutor, Sergei Fridinsky, said at a board
meeting of the central military prosecutor's office this week.
He expressed concern about the increase of violent crimes in the army,
including those causing the death and serious injuries to personnel.
According to the prosecutor's office the root cause is related first and
foremost not to the reduction of military service to one year, but to the
doubling of conscription and serious omissions by individual commanders.
Fridinsky noted changes in the motives and nature of such offenses.
"Bad habits and the unwritten code of conduct brought from the streets
are brought to military units with each new group of conscripts. Ever more
often fellow soldiers extort money and take away mobile phones, which is
often accompanied by physical violence," he said.

.Russian, Slovak railways discuss wide gauge line to Vienna.

MOSCOW, February 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian and Slovak railway
officials this week discussed a project for laying a wide gauge line to
Vienna.
"The talks were constructive. We all understand that the construction
of a wide gauge line to Vienna is global, and its implementation will have
a major impact on the socio-economic life of Europe, Russia and Asia,"
said the head of the Russian Railways company RZD, Vladimir Yakunin.
He said that that together with Slovakia's First Deputy Prime
Minister, Minister of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications, Jan Figel,
they discussed in a preliminary way "the appropriate levels of investment
in the project and its expected repayment period."
Yakunin said that "the project (for extending the wide gauge railway
to Vienna) will increase the transit of container traffic and bring Russia
and Europe closer in terms of railway infrastructures."
In turn, Figel said that "cooperation by the Slovak and Russian
railway workers in operating the container terminal in Dobra and in the
production of new rolling stock at the Tatravagonka plant over the past
two years has shown good results."

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