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Eastern Libyan forces intercepted Turkish boat with a Jamaican flag addressed to misrata port in western Libya, its spokesperson announced tonight.
Turkey is the main foreign sponsor of the internationally recognized Government of National Unity based in Tripoli, the cash whose years have been on the battlefield with the Libyan National Army (LNA) based in eastern Libya.
LNA spokesman Ahmet al-Mismari said the Mabrouka cargo ship had 17 crew members, including nine Turkish nationals, and containers that had not yet been inspected. Naval forces of the LNA intercepted him near the eastern port of Derna, he said.
A spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry was not immediately available for comment.
The GNA and the LNA signed a ceasefire agreement in October, and the United Nations is entering into a political dialogue with the aim of holding elections next year as a solution to the protracted conflict in Libya.
But both sides have not withdrawn their forces from the front, as required by the ceasefire agreement, while an incident in southern Libya on Sunday when LNA forces occupied a military camp put the agreement in further jeopardy.
Hours earlier, Mismari accused Turkey of continuing to supply arms and fighters to the GNA. The LNA is compatible with Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.
A group of UN experts has stressed that foreign supporters on both sides of the Libyan conflict continue to violate the arms embargo on the North African country.
A few weeks ago, the Anchor blocked a German frigate, participating in the “IRINI” mission of the European Union, to inspect a suspicious Turkish freighter off Libya.
As part of the European mission to monitor the arms embargo on Libya, the frigate “Hamburg” from of the German Armed Forces The Turkish freighter “Rosaline A”, suspected of carrying weapons, was ordered to be inspected.
At the last minute the control was prevented, after a strong protest from the Turkish government, which stated that it did not give its approval. Characteristically, the German inspectors had already embarked on “Rosaline A” and they were forced to leave without doing anything, while the ship continued its journey towards the port of Misrata.
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