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Beijing - China voiced its opposition to any arbitrary interpretation of the UN Security Council's resolutions on Libya, calling for greater political efforts to reach a cease-fire in the North African country.
Li Baodong, China's permanent representative to the UN, told a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday that the international community should respect the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Libya.
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He called for the "complete and strict implementation" of Security Council resolutions, adding that the current priority is to come up with a political solution to end the crisis and to establish a cease-fire monitoring system under the leadership of the UN.
Li said that the UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul Ilah al-Khatib, should play a "stronger role" in international efforts to end the conflict.
Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin also expressed a similar position, insisting that any military action outside the UN mandate would be unacceptable.
"Unfortunately it must be noted that actions by NATO-led coalition forces also lead to civilian casualties. This took place in particular during recent bombings of Tripoli," he said.
UN Resolution 1973, approved in March, authorized the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians.
Criticism of NATO operations intensified on Saturday when Gadhafi's second-youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three of Gadhafi's grandchildren were killed in an attack on Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in eastern Tripoli.
However, France's UN ambassador Gerard Araud, whose country is a leader of the coalition, replied that the international community had an obligation to intervene.
Cash-strapped Libyan rebels won a financial lifeline potentially worth billions of dollars from the US and other allies on Thursday.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington would seek to unlock some of the $30 billion of Libyan state funds frozen in the US to help the rebel movement.
Italy, host of a meeting in Rome of the "contact group" on Libya, said a temporary special fund would be set up by allied nations to channel cash to the rebel administration in its eastern Libyan stronghold of Benghazi.
Agencies contributed to this story.
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