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Source: Dubai – Arabia.net
On Monday, the European Union intends to announce sanctions against three companies from Turkey, an Arab country and Kazakhstan, accusing them of violating the United Nations arms embargo on Libya, two diplomats revealed to Agence France-Presse, on condition of anonymity.
The European Union has launched “Operation Irene”, which is deployed off the coast of Libya and is tasked with enforcing the arms embargo and gathering intelligence on violators of the resolution.
Turkey is one of the most prominent supporters of the Libyan Government of National Accord with mercenaries and weapons.
A diplomat told France Presse: “The sanctions are modest but effective,” and said they are a message.
Exacerbation of stress
The imposition of sanctions on a Turkish company would exacerbate the tension between Ankara and the European Union in the context of a growing dispute in the eastern Mediterranean for oil and gas.
A gunman loyal to the Interior Minister in the Government of National Accord, Fathi Bashagha (Archives – Reuters)
Under the sanctions, the companies will be blacklisted, their assets in the European Union will be frozen and they are expected to be approved at a meeting of the foreign ministers of the bloc countries on Monday in Brussels.
Reviving the political process
The Libyan dossier is witnessing a rapid evolution after the president of the Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, announced his intention to leave his post next October. United Nations and the German government, while the Special Representative of the Acting Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, in Libya, Stephanie Williams, considered that there is an opportunity to reactivate the political process in the country.
Elements loyal to the reconciliation forces in Libya – France Press
United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq said the international organization and the German government are already planning to hold a new conference on Libya via the Internet on October 5, explaining that preparations are still underway for the participation of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, various German officials, and foreign ministers from various countries. As well as representatives of the two parties to the conflict in Libya.
This new meeting comes after a summit organized in Berlin last January, with the participation of all the countries involved in the Libyan conflict, and those countries promised at that time to stop supplying arms and fighters to the warring parties.
Hold elections
Notably, the city of Montreux, Switzerland, hosted, last week, a consultative meeting between the Libyan parties, during which the participants agreed to hold elections within 18 months and begin to reshape the Presidential Council and form a government of national unity.
Prior to that, Bouznika in the Kingdom of Morocco hosted Libyan-Libyan parliamentary talks, with the aim of unifying the country’s sovereign institutions.
The participants also agreed to continue the dialogue and “to resume these meetings in the last week of this month of September” in order to complete the necessary measures to guarantee the implementation and activation of this agreement.
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