Years later, Libya is still a country in distress while their neighbors are taking gainful advantage of the situation – PB/TK
The UAE’s ‘destabilising’ role in Libya – al Jazeera/ June 14 2017
The United Arab Emirates is playing a destabilising role in Libya, analysts say, days after the release of a UN report that accuses the Gulf nation of repeatedly violating an international arms embargo.
The UN’s Libya Sanctions Committee report, released on Friday, reveals the UAE has supplied attack helicopters and other military aircraft to the Libyan forces of renegade General Khalifa Haftar, in violation of UN-backed international sanctions regime.
“The United Arab Emirates have been providing both material support and direct support to LNA, which have significantly increased the air support available to LNA,” said the report by a UN panel of experts.
Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), which is aligned with the Tobruk-based House of Representatives and refuses to recognize the UN-backed government in Tripoli, has taken significant ground in eastern and central Libya over the course of the past year, including military bases, cities and oil facilities.
Analysts say air power played a role in those advances.
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