The Ipsos poll found more than 70 percent support in Belgium, South Africa, Australia, India, France, Sweden and Canada for the NATO strikes on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi`s military and command structures.
About two-thirds of people in Brazil, Japan, Spain, South Korea, Poland and the United States back the action, which began after the U.N. Security Council in March authorized a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" to protect civilians.
And more than half the people in Germany, Britain, Hungary,
Mexico and Italy support the NATO strikes, while Saudi Arabia was evenly split. Support was less than 50 percent in Russia, Turkey, Argentina and Indonesia.
Of the 11 NATO countries surveyed, only in Turkey did less than half the people support intervention.
Four months into a revolt against his rule, Gaddafi is holding doggedly onto power despite weeks of NATO strikes. The conflict has now entered a stalemate, with Gaddafi in control of most of the west of Libya, while the rebels are hemmed in to their stronghold in the east and a few pockets in the west.
Western governments say they are carrying out their military intervention in Libya to stop Gaddafi`s forces killing civilians who rose up against his rule in a rebellion which took its lead from uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world.
Thousands of people have been killed since the civilian revolt broke out in late February.
Libyan officials deny killing civilians, saying instead they are fighting criminal armed gangs and al Qaeda militants. They say the NATO air strikes are an act of colonial aggression by countries that want to grab Libya`s oil wealth.
More than 18,500 adults were interviewed online by Ipsos between April 6 and April 21 and the survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. (*)
Editor: Ella Syafputri
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