UN extends mandate to inspect Libya-bound ships for arms
The frigate Augsburg of the German Navy returns to its home port Wilhelmshaven after deployment to the Mediterranean. – EPA pic, June 6, 2020.
THE UN Security Council yesterday unanimously extended for a year a resolution authorising the inspection of ships suspected of breaking a 2011 arms embargo on Libya. The renewal had already been unanimously decided upon last year by the 15 members of the Security Council, but Russia, which backs strongman Khalifa Haftar in his fight against the UN-backed government in Tripoli, had expressed doubts in talks at the beginning of the month, diplomats said.
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