United Nations condemned the takeover of South Sudan forces on the Heglig oil field in Sudan.The Secretary-General of the International Ban Ki-moon said this work is illegal, and called Juba to withdraw its troops.Ban also criticized Khartoum as well, and said that its forces should immediately stop the bombing of the territory of South Sudan, raiding them, as well as withdrawal from the territories in dispute.UN official stressed the need to avoid all-out war between Khartoum and Juba.
"New York Times"The newspaper "The New York Times," a comment on the report of the North Atlantic Treaty on the flaws in the military campaign against the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi late it revealed gaps in European capabilities can not be tolerated, though not fixed makes the alliance's future is bleak.The NATO report had confirmed a few days ago that the alliance has succeeded in his military campaign in Libya thanks to U.S. capabilities because he lacks the equipment and qualified men and analysts and so on.The paper says that experience to remember that Europe is still not ready in time sensitive, and the European armies are unable to carry out continuous air itself, even in neighboring areas.And warned that failure to make urgent efforts to repair those defects that would make the future of NATO before the dark of the military marginalization and hatred across the Atlantic, which threatens to undermine the alliance, which depends upon the security of Europe.And draws the "New York Times," consider that the United States last year allocated about 4.8% of GDP for military spending, while the average share of the European NATO members does not exceed 1.6%.She says that while it should be on the U.S. Department of Defense to be more disciplined in their spending, Europeans should raise the level of spending on armies and rational way.Attributes the newspaper failures operational in Libya to refrain chronically from investing army and to the strategic priorities that have become obsolete, pointing out that most European allies did not invest properly in modernizing their armies, and went expenditures on projects "vanity" such as nuclear deterrence in Britain and France.It points out that European countries do not spend a lot on security challenges such as a more realistic combat terrorist networks and the phase transition and who described dictators like Gaddafi, and before contract, Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia.The paper and change course, saying that military force is not always the solution, but Europe must be able to contribute its share.In conclusion, calling the newspaper to address the flaws - which revealed a campaign Libya - NATO summit next month in Chicago, said that NATO's credibility is at stake, noting that this represents a serious problem for Europe and America alike.
