MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Russia favors an international investigation of the circumstances of the death of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes.
"It is not accidental that the Office of UN High Commissioner on Human Rights stated today that all circumstances of his death must be investigated and I'm sure that such an investigation must be conducted, of course," he said in a Friday interview with three radio stations.
Lavrov stressed that in compliance with international law as soon as a party to an armed conflict is captured special procedures should be applied to him or her, including assistance and a ban on killing such a person.
"The footage that we saw on TV indicates that he [Gaddafi] was really captured when he was injured and that later, already in captivity his life was taken away from him," he said.
Lavrov also said that the attack of NATO aviation on Gaddafi's convoy was not compatible with the mandate of the alliance to guarantee a no-fly zone above Libya set by UN Security Council resolution #1973.
In Lavrov's opinion, the attack on Gaddafi's convoy had nothing to do with guaranteeing a no-fly zone, especially "as in this specific case one cannot speak of protecting the lives of civilians either because the convoy did not attack anyone."