MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for an international legal assessment of the military action in Libya.
"I'm deeply convinced that there needs to be a careful investigation into all these things from the point of view of international law," Lavrov said in an interview with radio stations the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow), Golos Rossii (Voice of Russia) and Radio Rossii (Radio of Russia).
"We remember NATO states, when they began to put the resolution of the Security Council into practice, were claiming that their goal was to protect civilians and not specifically to remove Gaddafi, and that the regime must be changed in a natural way, by the Libyan people themselves. Now they are talking differently," the minister said.