NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday the seven-month NATO operation in Libya had been a "great success" and that the decision to end it was final, DPA reported.
Speaking in Berlin after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said the operation had probably been one of the most successful in NATO's history.
Rasmussen said NATO would make an official declaration on Friday that the operation would terminate on Monday, October 31, in line with a UN Security Council resolution in New York.
NATO had fulfilled its mission fully, the former Danish prime minister said, adding that he saw no major role for the alliance in Libya from now on. The National Transitional Council had previously appealed to NATO to continue its operation to the end of the year.
Rasmussen called on the new leaders of Libya to fully investigate allegations of extrajudicial executions and torture by their troops.
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