- Title: U.N. envoy pushes to stop 'blatant' embargo violations in Libya
- Date: 11th October 2019
- Summary: VARIOUS OF SOLDIER IN ARMOURED VEHICLE SHOOTING MACHINE GUN GUN FIRING FIGHTERS STANDING VARIOUS OF FIGHTERS FIRING WEAPONS FIGHTER FIRING ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE (RPG) AT TARGET
- Embargoed: 25th October 2019 11:24
- Keywords: Libya Security UN UN envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame Interview
- Location: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- City: TRIPOLI, LIBYA
- Country: Libya
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA003B0NLLQF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The U.N. envoy for Libya on Thursday (October 10) said he hopes an international conference next month will produce a Security Council resolution committing foreign powers to stop an escalating proxy war and an accelerated mechanism to enforce an arms embargo.
The conference being organized by Germany is set to be the first major diplomatic push to end fighting that began when eastern-based forces led by Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on the capital Tripoli six months ago.
It will seek to rally key external players to halt increasingly flagrant violations of a U.N. arms embargo and pressure their allies inside Libya to commit to a ceasefire and a new political process.
No date has been set for the conference, which aims to bring together the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council as well as the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Turkey and Egypt.
The UAE and Egypt have long backed Haftar, while France and Russia have also lent him support. Turkey and Italy - the only Western nations to have reopened embassies in Tripoli after previous rounds of fighting - have close ties to the internationally recognized government in the capital.
Libya has been divided into rival, shifting camps based in the east and west since 2014, three years after a NATO-backed uprising overthrew former leader Muammar Gaddafi, with the conflict leaving hundreds of civilians killed and injured and more than 120,000 displaced.
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