NATO Warsaw Summit Decisions Regarding Libya
NATO Warsaw Summit Decisions Regarding Libya

Author(s): Patrycja Sasnal
Subject(s): Security and defense, Military policy, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Libya; NATO; Africa; Arab states; Muslim countries; Muslims; North Africa
Summary/Abstract: One outcome of NATO’s Warsaw Summit was a decision to strengthen the Alliance’s Southern Flank, by, among other things, declaring a readiness to act for the internal stabilisation of Libya and intensifying the anti-smuggling operation off the Libyan coast. Two positive decisions reverberated in the summit communiqué: unequivocal support for the new Libyan government and the need to coordinate NATO’s actions with the EU. The Alliance’s declarations, however, require a formal request from the Libyan authorities and specifications for Operation Sea Guardian. The Libyan government is most likely to ask individual countries for help with more urgent military tasks, such as the recent U.S. airstrikes carried out in Sirte after an official Libyan request.

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