Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO campaign in Libya, said today that "every action of the Atlantic Alliance will be held so that the collateral damage be minimized" to comply with resolution 1973 of UN in the African country.

Bouchard appeared in Naples (southern Italy) in a press conference, a day after NATO took military control of all operations in Libya and decided to take over the mission to protect civilians Libya, which implies address attacks against ground targets.

The Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and negotiated on Thursday to take over the maintenance of aerial exclusion zone and had earlier agreed to a naval operation to monitor compliance with the arms embargo under resolution 1973 United Nations.

"Our goal is to assist and protect civilians from attacks or threats of attacks," Bouchard said in response to several questions from reporters.

Lieutenant General of the Canadian airline stressed that "NATO is ready to achieve these objectives by all means spoiled, by sea and air", but refused to give details of the "rules of engagement" under which the act NATO troops.

The rules of engagement "do not argue, do not give details," the head of the NATO operation named the last day 25 for directing military operations of NATO.

He explained that the allies act "to prevent and to help others to prevent attacks against civilians in populated areas.

And he stressed: "Every action will be carried out so that collateral damage is minimized, while ensuring that maximum safety is observed."

Bouchard recalled that yesterday the NATO aircraft did their first mission to respect the exclusion zone and insisted repeatedly that the mission of NATO and its allies "is to protect civilians and population centers under threat ".

NATO forces "will act in close coordination with regional partners and international partners to protect Libya," he said Canadian Lt. General in Naples, where you direct the military actions in the North African country.

The 28 countries of NATO, "he said are" involved in this mission, and interventions are in favor of international and local partners, "without clarifying whether there is willingness on the part of countries of the Arab League.

"The greater the commitment, the stronger the message sent to the Libyan people in desperate need of our help," she said simply.

The Alliance expects to have total control of the operations taking place in Libya "in a couple of days," said a spokeswoman for the organization, Oana Lungescu.

"The transition is underway. The countries are allocating resources to the NATO authorities as we speak, but that transition is not instantaneous," said Lungescu in a press conference in Brussels.

Alliance sources estimate that on Thursday one could say that all international actions in Libya will be under allied command, effectively making the decision yesterday by the Atlantic Council, the highest decision making body of NATO.

The Canadian military also discussed the transfer of military command of the coalition of NATO countries, he said, "was carried out without interruption and without cracks, in an effort to do what we set out to help the Libyan people."

And he stressed that NATO will take steps to protect the civilian population "of all attacks come from one side or the other."

But in Libya, "he concluded civilians have been systematically attacked by the forces of Gaddafi has conducted outrageous attacks against civilians.

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