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Tuesday, 17 May 2016

World powers agree to arm Libya against Daesh insurgents

[Redacted] just got interesting. We’ll be keeping a close eye going forward on the implications for Egypt of a decision by the United States and all permanent members of the UN Security Council to begin arming the officially recognized Libyan government. The communiqué from the meeting held yesterday noted that more than 20 nations are “ready to respond to the Libyan government’s requests for training and equipping" government forces and “we will fully support these efforts while continuing to reinforce the UN arms embargo.” Cairo has long been supportive of arming the Libyan government as a block against an Islamist takeover of our Western neighbor. The Associated Press and Financial Times have more.

We expect Libya to be high on the agenda when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stops in for a visit tomorrow. The visit is already being positioned by wire services as coming “amid a stark crackdown on political freedoms in Egypt.

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