Russia has called on the European Union to obtain an approval from the UN Security Council for the naval mission, IRINI, to monitor the implementation of Libya’s arms embargo in the Mediterranean.

The Head of the European (EU) mission for the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, Andrea Cozzolino, has held Khalifa Haftar fully responsible for the ongoing aggression in Libya due to his continuing attack on the capital, Tripoli.

The African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security Smaїl Chergui has emphasized that the EU’s operation IRINI implemented to enforce the arms embargo on Libya must be transparent and includes all borders of Libya.

The United Nations has called on the European countries to end the suffering of asylum seekers rescued in the Mediterranean, and not to return them to Libya.

The EU call yesterday for an ‘‘end’’ to the ‘‘unacceptable’’ bombing of medical facilities after a Tripoli hospital was hit three days in a row. It did not condemn it nor did it attribute it to the Khalifa Hafter forces – as the Libyan government it recognizes, based in Tripoli, …

Russia will monitor the EU’s new naval operation aimed at stopping arms smuggling to Libya to see if it is in line with the UN resolution, the Russian mission to the United Nations said Wednesday.

The former Head of the High Council of State, Abdelrahman Al-Sweihli said he had reaffirmed, in a phone call with the US ambassador to Libya Richard Norland, “their right to defeat Haftar’s militias that are shelling Tripoli’s neighborhoods and hospitals and are cutting off water, and reiterated that stopping the …

When Joseph Borrell, the European Union’s diplomat-in-chief, announced the launch of Operation Irini  last week, he noted: “Diplomacy cannot succeed unless it is backed by action.”

The Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Taher Sayala and European Union’s Foreign policy chief Josep Borrell held a phone call, the GNA Foreign Ministry confirmed, to discuss the ongoing crisis in Libya.

The House of Representatives (HoR) in Tripoli has accused the European Union (EU) of working to enable Khalifa Haftar in Libya by dubious ways, commenting on the new naval mission in the Mediterranean, Operation IRINI.