The African Union urged an end to military actions targeting senior Libyan officials and key infrastructure

The African Union urged an end to military actions targeting senior Libyan officials and key infrastructure, a statement said Wednesday.
  
"Council urges all involved to refrain from actions, including military operations targeting Libyan senior officials and socio-economic infrastructure, that would further compound the situation and make it more difficult to achieve international consensus on the best way forward," the AU said.
  
The pan-African body stressed the need for all the parties involved in the implementation of UN resolution 1973 on Libya "to act in a manner fully consistent with international legality and the resolution's provisions, whose objective is solely to ensure the protection of the civilian population."
  
On Monday allied warplanes struck Moamer Kadhafi's compound in Tripoli. US and British defence chiefs Robert Gates and Liam Fox at a joint press conference Tuesday said the choice of target was legitimate.
  
The AU statement said the body would look into convening an extraordinary meeting in May "to review the state of peace and security on the continent, in light of the new crises and threats to peace and security in Africa."
  
Libya's foreign minister on Tuesday asked the AU Peace and Security Council to convene an extraordinary summit to find ways for the continent to fight "external forces"."My delegation proposes the holding as soon as possible of an extraordinary session of the assembly of the (African) Union to identify the ways that enable our continent to mobilise capabilities to face the external forces which aggress against us," Abdelati Obeidi said.