EU envoys approve lifting of Libya sanctions
EU ambassadors gave provisional approval to a partial lifting of sanctions, including an arms embargo, against Libya today.
The envoys endorsed a proposal to ease the embargo and referred the issue to EU foreign ministers, who will make the final decision at a meeting next month.
The EU move follows last year’s decision by the UN Security Council to lift 11-year sanctions against Tripoli.
In a separate move, EU ambassadors, meeting in Brussels also approved an Italian request to ease the EU’s own arms embargo imposed on Libya in 1986.
That would allow Libya to buy high-tech equipment to prevent the flow of illegal African migrants through Libya and into Europe.
