It will provide a further opportunity to widen the international coalition addressing the Crisis in Libya; to underline with the United States, Russia and others the urgency of progress on the middle east peace process and on Iran's nuclear programme; and to reaffirm our collective support for political transition in Egypt and Tunisia and democratic reform in the wider region.

The real question about the Crisis in Libya, and the massacre that may yet come, is this: does he believe it was right that there was resistance within the EU to the no-fly zone, and what does he think about the failure to lift the embargo for those in the part of Libya around Benghazi who need arms and are fighting valiantly, but who are increasingly in peril?

The Crisis in Libya demonstrates that a great deal more work needs to be done to make policy on the responsibility to protect fully operational, otherwise it is, frankly, meaningless.

We have got This Libya Crisis.

The potential humanitarian Crisis in Libya is one of those that should be influenced by the important report by Lord Ashdown on our response to humanitarian crises.

The way in which we have responded to the Libya Crisis and the wider change in the Middle East that we have discussed today is evidence that we are successfully rising to the current challenges in foreign policy.

No, I think that the high moral ground is retained by basing all our actions on what is legally correct, as we have done in our handling of the Whole Libya Crisis from the United Nations resolution downwards, and in the handling of these individual cases.

On foreign policy, UKRep has played an instrumental role in forging and maintaining a strong European political stance towards the recent Crisis in Libya.

On the consular side, which my hon. Friend mentioned, during the Libya Crisis, in the space of a few days, the UK evacuated more than 800 UK nationals and more than 1,000 other nationals from more than 50 countries, many of which were Commonwealth countries.

My Lords, the Minister has acknowledged that the struggling countries of the Sahel are now facing the fallout from the Crisis in Libya.

We continue to work on this and my noble friend may have seen the national security adviser's review of central co-ordination and the lessons learnt from the Libya Crisis.

My Lords, did the National Security Council review the strategic defence and security review 2010 in the light of the Arab awakening, the Libya Crisis et cetera?

Many people, in absolute desperation, turn to traffickers to try to escape the Crisis in Libya and in many other places.

The Crisis in Libya is having catastrophic consequences.