"All means must be made available in the fight against Gaddafi" was the information that came out of the last meeting between Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, and David Cameron, the British prime minister, who decided to intensify military force on Muammar Gaddafi's regime during a working dinner in Paris yesterday, according to French presidency information.

With NATO gathering today and with United States restraining itself to a supporting role of the conflict, France and UK decided that it was time to put more pressure on their allies to beat the Libyan regime.

Sarkozy and Cameron had explicitly called on the alliance and its associates to strengthen airstrikes on Libyan government troops to protect civilians and to quickly rejoin NATO’s command of the military operation that they defend to be under the terms of the United Nations Security Council resolution.

British foreign minister, William Hague and Foreign Minister Alain Juppé of France, had already stated this week in Luxembourg that “it would be welcome if other countries also did the same” as this is “a complex and at times convoluted coalition, with many participating countries refusing to carry out airstrikes against forces on the ground”, they declared underlining NATO’s officials declarations.

However, if UK and France keep on with airstrikes and Norway, Denmark and Canada are attacking Libyan targets on the ground, the Netherlands, Sweden, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are insisting on the no-fly zone or jiggling to political considerations back home.

On Wednesday, in the world powers meeting in Doha, the so-called Libya contact group vowed financial support for rebels and discussed a "temporary financial mechanism" to conduit cash into a trust fund. Belgium uttered opposition in supplying arms to the rebels, whilst Germany claimed that there is "no military solution".