Norway offers F-16 jet fighters to Libya mission

[jaxx]

“Norway is prepared to provide up to six F-16 fighter aircraft to participate in the enforcement of Security Council resolution 1973,” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said following the summit meeting in Paris on Saturday.

At the summit, Støre said that Norway strongly supports the historic resolution adopted by the Security Council two days ago. For the first time, the Security Council invokes the principle of Responsibility to Protect as the primary reason for authorizing the use of force against a Member State.

As a firm believer in this novel principle, and in the importance of an UN-led world order, Norway stands ready to contribute to its full implementation, through political, military and humanitarian means, the Prime Minister said.

"In addition to military contributions, Norway stands ready to help develop a broad and effective response, including economic sanctions, international legal action, and a well coordinated humanitarian assistance", Prime Minister Stoltenberg said in Paris.

(NRK/Press release)
http://www.norwaypost.no/news/norway-off...24911.html

Does Norway usually participate in these things?

(it said press release so I posted it all. If wrong let me know and I'll cut it down.)

[nofurylike]

thank you for posting this, jaxx!

Norway is in NATO, so it has troops in Afghanistan. was in Iraq, but pulled out early, in 2006.

i read that "Norway is considered the world’s 'most peaceful country' by the Global Peace Index," so it seems a pretty big thing that they are taking part in this action.

thank you for your note about press releases. you are giving me a training opportunity
i am waiting to hear how the rule goes for that. i will let you know as soon as i do.

[Cha]

(03-20-2011 05:32 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  thank you for posting this, jaxx!

Norway is in NATO, so it has troops in Afghanistan. was in Iraq, but pulled out early, in 2006.

i read that "Norway is considered the world’s 'most peaceful country' by the Global Peace Index," so it seems a pretty big thing that they are taking part in this action.

thank you for your note about press releases. you are giving me a training opportunity
i am waiting to hear how the rule goes for that. i will let you know as soon as i do.

Thanks, nofurylike..this is kind of what I thought when I first read jaxx's title on what Norway was contributing to UN's reaction to Qaddafi's slaughter of his own people.

Maybe it's the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing..

>snip<

Nobel may moreover also have felt that Norway was in fact better suited than Sweden to awarding a prize for peace. The country did not have the same militaristic traditions as Sweden, and at the end of the nineteenth century the Norwegian Storting (legislative assembly) had become closely involved in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and its efforts to resolve conflicts through mediation and arbitration. It would appear that Nobel set great store by such commitment.

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/about_p...hy-norway/

[nofurylike]

(03-20-2011 03:16 PM)Cha Wrote:  

(03-20-2011 05:32 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  thank you for posting this, jaxx!

Norway is in NATO, so it has troops in Afghanistan. was in Iraq, but pulled out early, in 2006.

i read that "Norway is considered the world’s 'most peaceful country' by the Global Peace Index," so it seems a pretty big thing that they are taking part in this action.

thank you for your note about press releases. you are giving me a training opportunity
i am waiting to hear how the rule goes for that. i will let you know as soon as i do.

Thanks, nofurylike..this is kind of what I thought when I first read jaxx's title on what Norway was contributing to UN's reaction to Qaddafi's slaughter of his own people.

Maybe it's the whole Nobel Peace Prize thing..

>snip<

Nobel may moreover also have felt that Norway was in fact better suited than Sweden to awarding a prize for peace. The country did not have the same militaristic traditions as Sweden, and at the end of the nineteenth century the Norwegian Storting (legislative assembly) had become closely involved in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and its efforts to resolve conflicts through mediation and arbitration. It would appear that Nobel set great store by such commitment.

http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/about_p...hy-norway/

thank you for adding that very interesting information about the Nobel Peace Prize, Cha!

"efforts to resolve conflicts through mediation and arbitration."

it does add important emphasis to their participating in this action in Libya.

[jaxx]

Thanks for the info on Norway, I had forgotten about them in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am glad to see them helping.

[nofurylike]

(03-20-2011 05:49 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Thanks for the info on Norway, I had forgotten about them in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am glad to see them helping.

i am glad for it, too. and that it was, as you posted, because the UN invoked "the principle of Responsibility to Protect."

"As a firm believer in this novel principle ... Norway stands ready to contribute ... "

[nofurylike]

posting entire press release is fine.
thanks!

[jaxx]

(03-20-2011 06:52 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  posting entire press release is fine.
thanks!

I missed this yesterday, so thanks! for the info.

[nofurylike]

(03-21-2011 03:54 AM)jaxx Wrote:  

(03-20-2011 06:52 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  posting entire press release is fine.
thanks!

I missed this yesterday, so thanks! for the info.

thank you for the training!

[Cha]

Very Interesting, jaxx! Seeing more and more why the President really had no choice but to join the other Nations in "protecting" Libyians from Qaddafi.

I would not like it if he hadn't.

[nofurylike]

(03-20-2011 03:08 PM)Cha Wrote:  Very Interesting, jaxx! Seeing more and more why the President really had no choice but to join the other Nations in "protecting" Libyians from Qaddafi.

I would not like it if he hadn't.

i have to add:
"I would not like it if he hadn't," either.