RP alert 4 in Libya still on By Michaela P. del Callar 09/23/2011

RP alert 4 in Libya still on

By Michaela P. del Callar 09/23/2011

Manila’s travel ban and order for government-assisted mass evacuation in Libya will remain until the security situation stabilizes, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.

There will be no immediate change in the government’s security policy in Libya even as democracy fighters have gained control of the North African state following the collapse of the regime of Libyan strongman Moammar Kadhafi, DFA spokesman Raul Hernandez said.

“It is still alert level 4,” he said, adding that the government will only amend its security assessment and lift the deployment ban “once the security situation has much improved.”

Alert level 4 calls for the mass evacuation of the remaining 2,000, mostly Filipino nurses, in Libya. However, most of the workers there have refused to join government-assisted repatriation to Manila for fear of losing their permanent jobs..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110923nat1.html