UN Security Council today passed a resolution approving a no-fly zone over Libya and authorising all necessary measures to protect the civilians in the strife-torn African country. Ten of the 15-member body voted in favour of the resolution which also calls for an immediate ceasefire in Libya. Five nations, China and Russia which have veto power and non-permanent members India, Germany and Brazil abstained from voting. India said, this resolution calls for far-reaching measures but answers to very basic questions are not received. This entire exercise has been based on less than complete information.The sanctions included an arms embargo, an asset freeze and travel ban on Gaddafi and his loyalists, and a referral to the Hague-based International Criminal Court. The UN action came as the Libyan leader threatened to launch the final attack to push out rebels from Benghazi, the second largest city of the country. Soon after the passage of resolution, US President Barack Obama called up his French counterpart Nocolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss on the enforcement of the UNSC resolution in Muammar Gaddafi-ruled Libya. The White House said in a statement that the leaders agreed that Libya must immediately comply with all terms of the resolution and that violence against the civilian population of Libya must cease. They also agreed to coordinate closely on next steps and to continue working with Arab and other international partners to ensure the enforcement of UN Security Council resolutions on Libya. European Union asked Gaddafi to relinquish power immediately and rapidly embark on an orderly transition to democracy through broad-based dialogue.Last week, the Arab League called for a no-fly zone to be established in Libya and the resolution, co-authored byBritain and France, was tabled by Lebanon on Tuesday. “We cannot let these war-mongers do this,” AlainJuppe, the French foreign minister, told the Security Council. “We have very little time… we should not arrive too late.”Meanwhile, media reports from the ground suggested that news of the UN resolution had been welcomed in Benghazi.Celebratory gunfire rang out in the city and imams at mosques shouted “God is greatest, God is greatest.”Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy envoy to the UN who had turned against Gadhafi, called for the resolution to beimplemented “immediately.”China's top diplomat in the UN Li Baodong also had similar apprehensions. “Many of those questions failed to beclarified or answered.” On the India and China queries, Susan Rice, US envoy to the UN, clarified it was impossible to answer all the questions given that the Council had to act quickly. “We spent many hours going over these issues,” she told reporters.The current resolution also calls for an immediate ceasefire, which Russia had earlier proposed as a smallerresolution. But it never came to a vote because key countries felt that only a ceasefire resolution lacked teeth and would not deter Gaddafi.Vitaly Churkin, the Russian envoy, warned “outside force” could destabilise the Middle East and North African region and described the resolution as “unfortunate and regrettable.”India also raised apprehensions on widening of sanctions on Libya. Manjeev Singh Puri, India's deputy envoyto the UN, told the Security Council the international community had to “mitigate and not exacerbate” the situation,and widening sanctions could hurt the economic interest of the Libyan people.But, his Libyan counterpart Dabbashi did not find this concern valid – “It has nothing to do with theLibyan people.”Mark Lyall Grant, the UK envoy to the UN, welcomed the vote and “Today’s resolution puts the weight of the SecurityCouncil squarely behind the Libyan people.” Grant's sentiment was echoed by Rice who said, “Todaythe Security Council has responded to the Libyan people's cry for help.”