US is preparing for contingencies, mainly of humanitarian nature, by moving some of its assets near to strife-torn Libya, White House said.

“We are preparing for contingencies by moving some assets into the region, primarily focused on the potential humanitarian contingencies that are out there. But as I have said and others have said, our US Ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday, we obviously aren’t taking any options off the table. But this is contingency planning essentially,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily news conference.

“We have done already quite a lot unilaterally and working with our international partners through the United Nations and the EU and other places. The unilateral sanctions that we imposed on Friday have already led the Treasury to block access to USD 30 billion of assets held by the Libyan regime, by members of the regime. That’s a pretty strong message about the consequences of this continued behavior,” he said.

Carney said United Nations has made clear that it will refer to the International Criminal Court the abuses of human rights in Libya and that “demonstrates the international community’s commitment to hold accountable those who would perpetrate the kind of violations that we’ve been seeing and hearing about. ”

He said intense pressure on Libyan regime has forced people around its longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi to think weather to support him or not.

“Those who are around Colonel Gaddafi are wondering which way they should go and whether or not they should continue to support this leader who no longer has credibility at home or anywhere in the world, they ought to think twice about it, because the consequences of continuing to support Colonel Gaddafi are quite severe. They will be held accountable,” Carney warned.

US President Barack Obama is being constantly updated on the situation in Libya, he said.

“Last week, perhaps even the week before, that as this unrest in the region began the President asked for more regular updates, approximately the morning update, midday, and end of the day updates.”

“So he is fully informed of whats happening. And if there are significant occurrences, events, things that happened that he needs to know about in between those times, he finds out about them. Hes very much on top of his,” he said.

Carney said US is using many channels — diplomatic, businesses, NGOs — to reach out to those in Libya who are in the opposition who are interested in creating a government that respects the rights of the people and meets the aspirations of the people.

“We are reaching out through these different channels to a variety of people who are in the position I just described and broadly describe as the opposition,” he added.