Germany, France and Italy threatening sanctions against foreign interference in Libya

Josep Borrell arrives at the EU Summit while France, Germany and Italy said on Saturday they are prepared to impose sanctions on foreign powers violating the arms embargo in Libya.
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"We call on all foreign actors to cease their interference and respect the arms embargo established by the United Nations Security Council", German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Emmanuel Macron and Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte said in a joint statement.

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They said they are "ready to consider the possible use of sanctions if the violations of the embargo on the sea, on land and in the air continue", as they met in Brussels to discuss the coronavirus recovery package.

The three leaders also called "on all parties in Libya, as well as their foreign backers, for an immediate end to the fighting," expressing "serious concerns" at "the increase in military tensions in the country".

No specific country was mentioned in the release.

The issue had already been raised by the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres early in July, when he denounced "unprecedented levels" of foreign intervention in Libya, with "the delivery of sophisticated equipment and the number of mercenaries involved in the fighting".

Libya has been torn by a bloody civil war since 2011, following the end of a 40-year-long dictatorship by Muʿammar Gheddafi and his killing.

The country is contended by a UN-backed government, based in Tripoli and led by Fayez al-Sarraj, and marshal Khalifa Haftar, who currently rules over the eastern part of the country and some of the south.

Turkey supports Fayez al-Sarraj's government, while Haftar has the backing of neighbouring Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.

That Greek military officials have been talking about the possibility of war in public suggests how desperate Athens has become in the face of Turkey’s most recent steps in the region. The Kardak/Imia crisis of 1996 and the forced expulsion of PKK terrorist organization leader Abdullah Öcalan from Greece in 1998 suggests that Athens would never risk a military confrontation with Ankara. The Greeks, who couldn't even measure up to the Turkey of the 1990s, will obviously run from a fight with the Turks today. Since President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan downplayed Greek threats as “blank bullets,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has opted to de-escalate tensions. Let us recall that the latter learned in a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump just last year that his country would have to fight Turkey alone – if it came to that.

[Kyle-ppdv]

Is France going to sanction itself for all the war crimes and interference committed there? 😂

[LukeTEvans]

yeah but only egypt will be sanctioned if they counter the other countries.. legislation just made to mess with egypt