Libya: World should help Syrians gain freedom

Libya’s prime minister says the world should help the Syrian people obtain their freedom. Abdurrahim el-Keib said the situation in Syria “is definitely analogous” to last year’s uprising in Libya, which received help from NATO to help protect civilians. But he said Libya can’t tell the international community what to do to help Syria. El-Keib said Libya was supporting and financially helping Syria’s opposition and he called on the international community to investigate what it can do to help. The prime minister spoke at the International Peace Institute Wednesday before addressing the UN Security Council. Training Syrian rebels Russia accused Libya during a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday of running a training center for Syrian rebels battling forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. “We have received information that in Libya, with the support of the authorities, there is a special training center for the Syrian revolutionaries and people are sent to Syria to attack the legal government,” Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council. “This is completely unacceptable,” Churkin said. “This activity is undermining stability in the Middle East.”