EU under pressure to prepare for Libya peace force

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If this weekend's Berlin summit on the Libya crisis goes according to plan, nervous European Union member states will come under pressure to ...

Fighters with Libyan internationally-recognised government have been fighting against Haftar since April AFP/Mahmud TURKIABRUSSELS: If this weekend's Berlin summit on the Libya crisis goes according to plan, nervous European Union member states will come under pressure to provide forces to help monitor any truce.

"Or take the arms embargo. We Europeans have been entrusted by the United Nations to enforce it. In reality, the arms embargo is ineffective. Nobody controls anything there," he told the German news weekly. "In Syria it has been a military solution, brought by the Turks and the Russians, and this has changed the equilibrium on the eastern part of the Mediterranean," he warned.

But elsewhere, militias control the oil-rich Mediterranean country, and forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar - a military strongman based in the east of the country - have assaulted the capital. European diplomats were cautious, and some warned that certain capitals would be unable - or unwilling - to step up.

 

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