The article presents the events related to the process ofchanges in North Africa. They were dubbed Arab Spring at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century. In Libya they took a dramatic turn at the end of the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. In response, a group of Western countries launched a military intervention in accordance with the “Responsibility to Protect” due to massive human rights violations by government troops and threats of the Libyan leader. The Western intervention received the mandate of the UN Security Council, but Germany abstained from voting, which was a big surprise for Western partners. Germany was then a non-permanent member of the Council. The aim of the article is to discuss the above circumstances, and to analyze the reasons of the German position in the UN Security Council.
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