The latest statement from the Libyan regime - addressed to the French, British, the United States and the UN - signals another small shift.
Just 24 hours ago, in the very same room where we heard today's statement, was an announcement of a ceasefire.
At that point, the Libyans said they were part of the United Nations and therefore recognised its authority.
But very different language this morning.
A pretty strong message is being sent to the West.
"Libya is not yours, Libya belongs to all Libyans," the regime said in a statement.
"The (UN) Security Council is invalid."
This essentially goes against what was said yesterday.
"The Security Council is not authorised to intervene in its internal affairs," the statement continued.
It went on to label the proposed UN intervention as "an injustice and a clear aggression".
What is pretty interesting is that the regime here is quite clearly setting the West up for a very big decision - whether to go ahead with its threat to use military force.
We know that legally the decision has been taken, the resolution has been passed.
But that resolution was passed on Thursday night and the French said the air strikes would come within hours.
This is a city that is bracing itself now, holding its breath to see whether those air strikes will come.
But the regime is now saying to the West: "If you come here to carry out air strikes, you are not coming to protect the human rights of civilians, you are... going to be opening the door to al Qaeda."
Time and again the regime has used the name of this organisation - al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb.
Now that's essentially an offshoot of the ideology of al Qaeda that runs right across North Africa.
Remeber when there was those uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, it was the big concern of the West that in the power vaccuum al Qaeda would step in.
And that is what the regime is saying could happen here.