[Maghrebia] The international "contact group" on Libya will hold its first meeting on Tuesday (April 12th) in Doha. UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdel Elah Al-Khatib will attend the Qatar event. The United Nations...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
delegation will include representatives of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The contact group was established at the London Conference on Libya at the end of March.
On Thursday, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
Secretary-General Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
... who has been head of the Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ...
, AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping, OIC head Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will meet at the vaporous Arab League headquarters in Cairo to co-ordinate the international response to the crisis in Libya.