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Libya govt says oil exports by rival administration ‘illegal’
TRIPOLI, June 26, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Libya’s UN-backed government warned
Tuesday that any oil exports by a rival administration in the east would be
illegal after the region’s military strongman handed over its key export
ports.
“All exports by parallel institutions are illegal and any attempt will fail
just as previous ones have,” said the head of Libya’s National Oil
Corporation Mustafa Sanallah.
The self-styled Libyan National Army of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar
announced on Monday that all future revenues from the eastern oil ports which
it controls will be handed to the unrecognised administration in the east
after it recaptured two of them in 10 days of deadly fighting with rival
militia.
The Benghazi-based authorities made a similar attempt to bypass the Tripoli
government in April 2016 but their planned sale of 300,000 barrels of crude
was stopped by the UN Security Council.
BSS/AFP/MR/ 1424 hrs