Libya
UN: fight against IS in Libya makes progress
The fight against the terror militia in Libya is progressing according to the United Nations rapidly. Meanwhile, the British Parliament has sharply criticized the Libya Intervention by the Cameron government.
Fighters of the government at the end of August in the city of Sirte
The Libyan troops have made “impressive progress” in the fight against the jihadists militia “Islamic state” (IS). This Martin Kobler, the German UN special representative for Libya said the UN security Council in New York. “Very soon, the IS no territory in Libya.”
Concerned showed Kobler, however, given the struggles several oil terminals on the Libyan Mediterranean coast. They represented a “strong shock” for the peace process in the country. “This development will hamper oil Exports, Libya from his only source of income cut off, and the division of the country strengthen,” said Kobler. “This has to stop.”
The UN special representative Martin Kobler
The major Terminals security forces of the PFG, which in some cases operate as a militia, and with the international de facto recognized unit of government are allies in Tripoli, and units of the Libyan anti-government fight. These are the influence of General Khalifa Haftar from the leadership in the ostlibyschen Tobruk in League, denied under UN mediation incurred by a unit of government in the deeply divided by civil war country, the recognition.
Meanwhile, an investigation revealed the report of the British Parliament heavy Vorwüfe against Ex-Prime Minister David Cameron in connection with the Intervention in Libya in 2011. The bombing was based on “erroneous assumptions”; in addition, there is a lack of adequate planning for the time after that.
We have published our report on #Libya. Read it here: https://t.co/f7mPMrP5Yj
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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of Commons analyzed in the paper, the decision-making processes in the run-up to the attacks by Britain and France, which had been justified with the protection of civilians against the Gaddafi Regime. “The government was not able to determine the actual threat that emanated from the Gaddafi Regime to the civilian population, in clear and took arbitrary parts of Muammar Gaddafi’s rhetoric literally”, – the report says.
David Cameron in September 2011 in the Libyan capital, Tripoli
The government have also failed to identify the militants of the Islamist elements in the Rebellion against the dictator. You would need to be clear that militant extremists-would groups try to benefit from the uprising, but there is a lack of a careful analysis of the players.
According to the report, it declined to Cameron, referring to his busy schedule, before the Committee to testify. Cameron was on 13. July, resigned in the Wake of the Brexit vote back
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