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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/sanctions-imposed-on-libya-by-eu.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said European measures would reinforce other sanctions already imposed against Libya (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-sanctions-imposed-on-libya-by-eu.jpg" alt="EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said European measures would reinforce other sanctions already imposed against Libya (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The EU has imposed its own arms embargo, visa ban and other sanctions on Libya as part of an escalating global effort to halt Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s crackdown on rebels.</p>
<p>In a series of fast-paced developments, France pledged to send two planes with humanitarian aid to Libya&#8217;s opposition stronghold of Benghazi while Germany considered a two-month cut-off of oil payments to Gaddafi&#8217;s regime.</p>
<p>The moves came after days of increasing protest against the hundreds, and potentially thousands, of deaths caused by Gaddafi&#8217;s military resistance against the popular uprising in his country.</p>
<p>EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the European measures, including a freeze on assets, aimed to reinforce the UN Security Council-mandated sanctions against Libya approved over the weekend.</p>
<p>She said the EU also was putting &#8220;an embargo on equipment which might be used for internal repression&#8221; and urged coordinated action by nations to help people across North Africa and the Middle East.</p>
<p>A more complex set of negotiations, she added, were being held over the possibility of creating a no-fly zone over Libya.</p>
<p>Foreign ministers gathered in Geneva &#8211; including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Baroness Ashton, for a meeting of the UN&#8217;s Human Rights Council to co-ordinate action against Gaddafi&#8217;s regime. Mrs Clinton pressed European leaders to enact tough sanctions.</p>
<p>In Paris, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said planes were heading for the eastern city of Benghazi with doctors, nurses, medicines and medical equipment. &#8220;It will be the beginning of a massive operation of humanitarian support for the populations of liberated territories,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Germany&#8217;s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, proposed cutting off all oil and other payments to Libya for 60 days to make sure that Gaddafi&#8217;s regime does not get more money to hire mercenaries. The German action is significant because 85% of Libya&#8217;s oil goes to European customers. </p>
<p>Last week, both Britain and Switzerland froze assets belonging to the Libyan leader and his family.</p>
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