(see related)Former center-left
premier Romano Prodi told RAI public broadcaster Thursday the
conditions are not there for an intervention in Libya.
"Our prime minister and the United Nations said a military
intervention in Libya could only take place upon request by a
(Libyan) government of national unity," Prodi told TG3 evening
news.
"Currently we are very far from (such a scenario)... war is
the last resort".
Prodi added that Italy "could only intervene under the
aegis of the UN ".
The former premier said the killings of two Italian
hostages in Libya were "deliberate rather than an accident".
"Holding four Italian hostages is a formidable tool for
(so-called Islamic State terror group) ISIS to exert pressure,"
Prodi said. "This is why I am inclined to believe it was
something deliberate rather than an accident".
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