The Western countries that helped overthrow Gaddafi must step up efforts for the creation of the armed forces and a professional police force and promote the adoption by the government of a constitutional charter.

Without greater support to the current Libyan government, the attack on the French embassy might sound like the beginning of a tendency to instability across North Africa see Mali, Algeria and Tunisia.

The attack on the French embassy is to be interpreted not as a revenge for the French intervention in Mali but more likely as the result of a fight, little understood by the West, between government forces and militias jiadiste who prefer chaos to 'established order in order to cling to their fiefdoms facts of smuggling and arms trafficking, they simply do not want to see a democratic process that takes the reins of the country and are willing to use violence to prevent it.

The major Western powers in Libya are made from Italy, France, Great Britain and the United States and they are all supported by the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan.

The maintenance of safety during the delicate process of democratization is fundamental.

A Libya unstable and unable to write their own constitution would be a disaster for the Arab world that sees in Libya the democratic model that aspires.

The Libyan state must be a fundamental cornerstone of stability in North Africa and a strong commitment of international partners is therefore more necessary than ever.

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