Sir Ivor Roberts on what next for Libya
Ivor Roberts has written an article for The Irish Independent (23 October) on the end of the Gaddafi era, what brought it about and how it is likely to effect global politics.
In it he said, The West -- which for once did nearly everything right -- has much to do in advising and encouraging the transitional authorities as they struggle to make their writ run: agreement on a constitution, a timetable for elections, a new model army and police force purged of Gaddafi loyalists but representative of Libyas complex regional and tribal structure, an independent judiciary, an arms amnesty. An illustrative not exhaustive list but an already daunting one.
In it he said, The West -- which for once did nearly everything right -- has much to do in advising and encouraging the transitional authorities as they struggle to make their writ run: agreement on a constitution, a timetable for elections, a new model army and police force purged of Gaddafi loyalists but representative of Libyas complex regional and tribal structure, an independent judiciary, an arms amnesty. An illustrative not exhaustive list but an already daunting one.
