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Spotlight | Libya
UN, Tripoli, Abu Dhabi play game of bluff over arms embargo

Published on 08.02.2023 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

Libya's Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba in Tripoli, on 21 November 2021. © Hazem Turkia/Anadolu Agency via AFP

Tripoli is quietly lobbying the UN to allow delivery of armoured vehicles from the Emirates, despite an arms embargo on Libya. The plea comes after a ship carrying Emirati armoured vehicles to eastern Libya was seized in October, the latest in a series of violations of the international embargo.

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Spotlight | Libya
UN, Tripoli, Abu Dhabi play game of bluff over arms embargo

Tripoli is quietly lobbying the UN to allow delivery of armoured vehicles from the Emirates, despite an arms embargo on Libya. The plea comes after a ship carrying Emirati armoured vehicles to eastern Libya was seized in October, the latest in a series of violations of the international embargo.

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Spotlight | Libya UN, Tripoli, Abu Dhabi play game of bluff over arms embargo

Tripoli is quietly lobbying the UN to allow delivery of armoured vehicles from the Emirates, despite an arms embargo on Libya. The plea comes after a ship carrying Emirati armoured vehicles to eastern Libya was seized in October, the latest in a series of violations of the international embargo.

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Spotlight | Libya
UN, Tripoli, Abu Dhabi play game of bluff over arms embargo

Libya
Sanctioned Iranian shipping firm sails into eastern ports

Ghana
European Union bails out Ghana's navy

Libya
Libyan-Israeli foreign ministers' meeting may have been prelude to Dabaiba-Netanyahu encounter

Libya
EU to divert arms seized in policing Libyan embargo

Libya
Ara Pacis's Italian funds cause disorder in southern Libya

Libya
Former Libyan PM Khalifa al-Ghwell makes low-key visit to the Elysée

Libya
EU agrees to transfer to Ghana the armoured vehicles seized off Libyan coast

Ghana, Libya
EU and UN consider sending AVs seized off Libyan coast to Ghana

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Libyan Coast Guard under the influence of Libyan militias and foreign governments

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UN supplier TAG supplies armoured cars to Haftar