Permanent Representative of Libya Ibrahim Eddabbashi.
Libya demanded permission from the United Nations to import large amounts of weapons including tanks, fighter jets, attack helicopters and other lethal arms in order to for the elected government to fight Islamic State terrorists and the militias that are allied with them.
Libya UN envoy, Ibrahim Eddabbashi, in strongly worded statement to the UN Security Council committee overseeing an arms embargo imposed upon the country said Libya accepts an observer to make sure that arms imported do not fall in non-government hands.
“Because the Libyan army is launching war against terrorist organizations in Libya, some of them have pledged allegiance to ISIS, it is in the interest of peace and security in Libya and the world to simplify the procedures for the army to obtain weapons by either lifting the sanctions or by facilitating procedures for exemption from the ban,” the Libyan envoy said.
Eddabbashi commended the Sanctions Committee’s experts for their efforts to produce an objective report which clearly recognizes that the Libya Dawn militias are responsible for impeding the political process and cites the damages these militias have caused to the whole country.
The report also names leaders of these militias by name, at the same time it refutes allegations that the Libyan air force raids have caused damage among civilians.
There are those who distort facts and disregard crimes in order to perpetuate the status quo in Libya, said Eddabbashi referring to the British envoy to the UN , Mark Lyall Grant without naming him.
“A representative of a permanent member of the SC did not feel shy, unfortunately, to claim that a militia allied with Ansar al-Sharia, designated by the SC as a terrorist organization, as being the only one that fights terrorism in Libya,” Eddabbashi said.
“Such statements require a formal apology to the Libyan people from the state concerned,” he added.
He also stressed that “there is no right for any nation to interfere in any decisions by the elected Libyan authorities with regard who would lead the Libyan army or state institutions”.
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