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Coalition still continues its activities. that decision has not been made yet. >> i think you're very clear. i understand what you're saying. nato will be in charge of the no-fly zone, but the united states and coalition partners at least for now until nato makes a final decision will continue to be in charge of protecting civilians from libyan tanks or artillery or ground fire. and if they want to send in planes to destroy the tanks, that will not be nato. correct me if i'm wrong, secretary general. >> yeah, but i would add that we are considering whether we should take on the broader respons...

Recent -- since this operation began almost a week ago. they said the u.s. would be in charge only for a matter of days. then someone else would take charge. it was unclear who would take charge. now we know it will be nato together with some nonnato members who will participate only within in the past hour or so. the united arab emirates said it will send 12 jet fighters to participate in the no-fly zone operation. six frempbl made barrage jet fighters. the united arab emirates will join. and they will participate two members of arab league. we're standing by to speak with the secretary gener...

The opposition is gone, we're there, there's very few troops there. we can see the stage is being set that the situation is really being said for some serious confrontations there, regardless of what happens in misrata at the moment. >> knick we'll get back to you. stand by. we're standing by we hear from the secretary-general in brussels. is there a deal for the united states to hand over command responsibilities to nato? we've been waiting for him for a few hours. we'll see if the nato secretary-general anders rasmussen shows up and makes a statement. we're also total that secretary clinton ...

Attacking what tactical air krafl forces inside of a constituent, nothing prevents us in the rules of engagement from doing that. we're doing that because we are not sure -- we're fairly confident we couldn't achieve -- meet or collateral damage concerns. >> but the coalition has been doing strikes -- air strikes on ground forces, moammar gadhafi's ground forces outside of the cities. would that continue under nato? that's something we'll have to keep a close eye on. >> turkey is a member of nato, and they don't necessarily appreciate some of those assaults on the ground troops on gadhafi. sta...

States? >> we have done all the necessary preparation. we can take over in a couple days. >> by this weekend nato will be in charge. will the overall commander be someone from france, britain, from denmark where you're from? who will be in charge? >> we will use the already established nato chain of command. >> so who will be the commander of the operation? >> that's for the military authorities to decide. the nato council does not make that decision. >> do you know if they've already made the decision, secretary general?