Well after all protests many nationals safely escaped from Libya but regarding to British media Britain has shutdown its embassy in Libyan capital Tripoli, temporarily discontinuing diplomatic activities in the troubled north African country, the foreign ministry said. The embassy's employees were on board the last of several chartered planes, which flew 53 British citizens and 47 other foreigners to London. However Turkey will in the meantime represent Britain's interests in Libya.
Only one British Consulate has stayed behind and is working closely with the Turkish embassy in Tripoli Libya. Meanwhile, British military planes evacuated 150 Britons to safety from a desert area south of the city of Benghazi, Defence Minister Liam Fox confirmed on media reports yesterday. Many countries around the world have been evacuating their citizens from Libya since protests begun, which has seen almost two weeks of protests calling for leader Muammar Gaddafi's ouster, some of which have reportedly been met with a bloody crackdown by security forces. Many people kiled and injured due high tension protests all over the Libya and expected to grow because Gaddafi dosent want to step down.
However new reports out about Libya now and again all about Libya`s nuclear weapons but its a problem now. Many media start to talk about but why never been an issue all this time? Do you think just excuse to fight with Libya or is it part of invasion plans.
Following are details of countries evacuating nationals;
TURKEY: Libyan authorities declined permission for some 250 Turks to cross the border into Tunisia late on Thursday. Turkey has evacuated 8,360 of its citizens on two ships and 26 planes, the prime minister's office said. It was sending a further 12 planes to Libya on Friday, including eight military aircraft.
ROMANIA: A plane left Bucharest for Tripoli on Feb. 24 and Romania has asked its citizens in Libya to confirm their plans to leave on an emergency basis. Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said there were 450 Romanians in Libya.
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa said on Thursday it was arranging for a flight to evacuate some embassy staff and 30-40 nationals from Libya.
SOUTH KOREA: A chartered plane carrying about 200 nationals took off from Tripoli on Friday for Cairo and another is scheduled, the Foreign Ministry said. A total of 1,300 South Koreans were in Libya working for construction companies.
SPAIN: A Spanish armed forces plane carrying 124 people evacuated from Tripoli, landed in Madrid on Friday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. The evacuees included 40 Spaniards as well as Mexican, British, Canadian and Portuguese nationals. Spain is planning the evacuation of a small number of Spaniards from outside Tripoli, the spokesman said.
SYRIA: Syria has sent vessels to pick up Syrian nationals from different areas in Libya, in addition to continuing its flights to Tripoli. Minister of Transport Yarub Badr said two ships have been sent so far.
TUNISIA: Tunisia had at least 30,000 nationals in Libya. At least 7,000 have been able to leave. Tunisia sent five flights to Libya on Wednesday and two before that. Tunisia has scheduled a ferry to travel to Benghazi.
CROATIA: Croatia said 28 Croatian workers have left Benghazi on an Italian military ship bound for Malta. A plane from Zagreb landed in Tripoli and Croatian officials were trying to reach the remaining workers at three different sites. There are around 125 Croat workers still in Libya.
GERMANY: Military sources have said Germany is sending three ships to the Libyan coast to help evacuate German citizens. The military is sending a supply vessel "Berlin" and the frigates "Brandenburg" and "Rheinland-Pfalz", with about 600 soldiers aboard. They are currently anchored off Valetta.
GREECE: Greece has evacuated 227 Greeks and Cypriots from Tripoli and Sabha in Libya aboard three C-130 military aircraft. It has also sent two frigates to waters off Libya and the Greek island of Crete.
INDIA: The foreign ministry said it has sent a ship to Benghazi to evacuate at least 1,200 Indians and is seeking permission for its planes to land in Tripoli for other evacuations. There are 18,000 Indians in Libya, mostly in the oil, construction and health sectors.
IRELAND: Ireland is to try again to get a plane back to Tripoli. Irish media said an Irish air force plane returned to Malta from Tripoli with no passengers on board. There are around 70 Irish people in Libya, 54 of them Tripoli. Ireland confirmed on Friday that members of the emergency civil assistance team are on the ground in Tripoli airport and are making contact with Irish nationals at the airport and elsewhere in Tripoli.
BRITAIN: Britain was drawing up plans to pull out British oil workers stranded in desert camps, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday. Six flights had left Libya in the past 24 hours carrying Britons, and the frigate HMS Cumberland had evacuated Britons and other foreigners from Benghazi, he said.
BULGARIA: Around 100 Bulgarians living in Benghazi are expected to leave on a Turkish ship which docked in Benghazi on Thursday but has not left because of bad weather. Earlier, 10 Bulgarian citizens were evacuated on a Romanian aircraft.
CANADA: Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said on Thursday nearly 200 Canadians had been, or were about to be, evacuated on planes and ships arranged by other nations. C-17 military transport plane with 156 seats was on its way to Italy from Germany and would fly to Tripoli as soon as Libyan authorities gave permission.He also said a charter plane from Amman would arrive in Tripoli early on Friday. So far, 213 Canadians have said they want to leave Libya.
CHINA: China has evacuated 12,000, or about one-third, of its citizens, many of them workers for Chinese-run projects, official media said on Friday. 1,000 Chinese crossed into Tunisia on Wednesday, and a Maltese ship carrying some 2,000 Chinese was expected to dock in Valetta later on Friday. However many others that we havent counted on the list evacuated their nationals from Libya which will go on until everything settles down in Libya.
