Brussels-Sana
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi de Mayo announced that the European Union countries agreed to start a mission to prevent weapons from entering Libya.
Reuters reported that de Mayo said after talks between the 27 EU foreign ministers in Brussels today ... "The European Union is committed to an air and naval mission and there is a part of it on the ground to ban the entry of weapons into Libya."
He added ... "The mission is not to revive the Sofia operation and it will be deployed on the eastern coast of Libya, where arms are being smuggled."
ITU member states have agreed to provide seven aircraft and seven boats for the mission, if available.
According to news reports, the Turkish regime continues to send weapons, ammunition and drones and transport terrorists to Libya, ignoring international efforts to resolve the crisis there, including the International Conference in Berlin and the Conference of Libya’s Neighboring Countries, which stressed the need not to interfere in the affairs of this country and stop sending weapons to it.
Earlier in the day, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said that international efforts to settle the crisis in Libya would be of no value in the absence of careful monitoring of the arms embargo, while Libyan National Army commander Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter stressed last Friday that peace would not be achieved in Libya Before disarming the armed groups and leaving the mercenaries sent by the Turkish regime to their lands.
