Iran Press/Africa: Last Sunday, foreign powers backing opposing camps fighting over Libya’s capital Tripoli agreed at a summit hosted by Germany and the United Nations to push the parties to a lasting ceasefire and respect an existing U.N. arms embargo, while Several have violated it.
According to Reuters, the UN mission warned that the truce, agreed by the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libyan National Army (LNA) is now threatened by the transfer of foreign fighters and weapons, including those who participated in the Berlin conference earlier this month.
UNSMIL said in a Saturday statement: "The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) deeply regrets the continued blatant violations of the arms embargo in Libya, even after the commitments made in this regard by concerned countries during the International Conference on Libya in Berlin, held on 19 January 2020."
"Over the last ten days, numerous cargo and other flights have been observed landing at Libyan airports in the western and eastern parts of the country providing the parties with advanced weapons, armored vehicles, advisers, and fighters. The mission condemns these ongoing violations, which risk plunging the country into a renewed and intensified round of fighting", UNSMIL added.
It blamed several countries which were present at the Berlin conference, without naming them, went on saying the statement: “The mission condemns these ongoing violations, which risk plunging the country into a renewed and intensified round of fighting.”
The United Arab Emirates and Egypt support eastern forces of Khalifa Haftar which have been trying to take Tripoli in a near ten-month campaign. The internationally recognized administration based in Tripoli trying to fend off Haftar’s forces is backed by Turkey.
Top officials from the UAE, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, African Union as well as western countries such as the United States, France, Britain, and European Union had gathered at the Berlin summit. 212/ 104
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