UN Security Council permission required for operations with Gaddafi's assets - diplomat
MOSCOW. Aug 2 (Interfax) - Any operations involving Col. Muammar Gaddafi's assets abroad, frozen in compliance with a UN Security Council resolution, should be authorized by the UN Security Council, Sergei Vershinin, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department, told journalists on Tuesday.
"The question now being discussed within the [UN] Security Council is whether to formulate a joint decision in order to be able to use some assets, should such a need arise. But such measures should always be authorized by the Security Council," he said.
Another condition for defreezing the financial assets of the Libyan leaders and handing them over to the country's government should be an even distribution of this money between the country's west and east, Vershinin added.
"These funds must be spent with a clear understanding of what they should be used for - the humanitarian purposes - and regardless of who they will be given to, so that it was not unilateral," Vershinin said.