News of the day 27/02/2015

- In the Press: Libyan unrest results in €20 million loss in exports
MaltaToday

- Libya Needs International Maritime Force to Help Stop Illicit Oil, Weapons: UN NDTV.com 

- Daniel Kawczynski MP: It’s time to bomb ISIS in Libya
ConservativeHome

- 77 Pinoy repatriates to arrive from Libya
 ABS-CBNnews.com

- Sudan’s Bashir criticises Egypt’s decision to launch air strikes against Libya
 Sudan Tribune

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- 25,529 Egyptians back from Libya - Foreign Ministry Aswat Masriya

Libya's PM says Turkey supplying weapons to rival Tripoli group

CAIRO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Libya's internationally recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said his government would stop dealing with Turkey as it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so "the Libyan people kill each other", ramping up his rhetoric against Ankara.
Two administrations, one in the capital and Thinni's in the east, have been vying for power since an armed group called Libya Dawn seized Tripoli in July and reinstated lawmakers from a previous assembly, four years after Muammar Gaddafi's ousting.
"Turkey is a state that is not dealing honestly with us. It's exporting weapons to us so the Libyan people kill each other," he told Egyptian TV channel CBC late on Thursday.
A spokesman for Turkey's foreign ministry strongly denied Thinni's allegations.
"Instead of repeating the same baseless and untrue allegations we advise them to support U.N. efforts for political dialogue," spokesman Tanju Bilgic told Reuters.
"Our policy vis-a-vis Libya is very clear. We are against any external intervention in Libya and we fully support the ongoing political dialogue process under U.N. mediation."
Thinni's government said this week it would exclude companies from future deals, accusing Ankara of backing the Tripoli government and its allied armed groups.
He repeated that Turkish firms would be excluded from contracts in territory controlled by his government in the CBC interview, noting that any outstanding bills would be paid.
"We don't say we are hostile to Turkey but we say we don't deal with it," he said.
Turkey is one of a handful of countries which has publicly received officials from the Tripoli government and parliament.
Critics of Ankara say its Libya policy is an extension of a pro-Islamist agenda which has already seen relations sour with other former regional allies, notably Egypt.
Thinni also accused Qatar of giving "material" support to the rival side in the Libyan conflict. He did not elaborate.
Army general Khalifa Haftar, who merged his forces with the army in the east to fight Islamist militants, is seen as a potential rival to Thinni. While the alliance between the groups has enabled them to win back territory, Haftar has been criticised for air strikes on civilian airports and seaports.
On Wednesday, a spokesman for Thinni's parliament said the assembly's president would appoint Haftar as top army commander. (Additional reporting by Tulay Karadeniz in Istanbul; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland)

Al-Thini Calls for Naval Observer Force Off Libyan Coast

CAIRO—
The head of Libya's internationally recognized Cabinet based in Tobruk, Abdallah al-Thini, says his government is calling on the international community to deploy a naval force off the Libyan coast to halt arms smuggling to Islamic militants.
Prime Minister al-Thini spoke with journalists and Egyptian government officials in Cairo Friday, during a visit to discuss security and economic issues. His visit, according to the Libya Herald, was a stopover on the way to Moscow to discuss a possible arms sale by the Russian government.
Al-Thini told journalists that his government is urging the international community to set up a neutral naval observer force to monitor and prevent arms smuggling into Libya.
He says that Libya has repeatedly called for a naval observation force, specifically from the European Union, in order to prevent illegal immigration or arms smuggling, and this would be welcome so long as it was under a neutral power.
The acting prime minister's call comes on the heels of a leaked Libyan report to the U.N. Security Council that said “the capacity of Libya to physically prevent [arms] transfers is almost nonexistent and there is no authorization to enforce the arms embargo on the high seas as there was during the 2011 revolution.”
Libyan politics is currently split between the Tobruk-based government and a rival assembly in Tripoli. Various militia control other areas of the country.
In an interview with al-Arabiya TV, al-Thini said boatloads of Islamic militants are entering Libya by sea on unregistered boats. In a separate interview, former interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril questioned why NATO ships are not intervening to stop arms shipments arriving by sea.
The Egyptian military accuses Turkey of sending arms to Islamic militias in Benghazi and Misrata. Turkey denies the charges. Meanwhile, the Libyan air force, based in the east of the country, has accused Qatar of sending arms by air to Misrata. Qatar denies those charges, as well.
There were short-lived indications that Italy, Libya's former colonial power, was considering sending ground troops to stabilize the situation in the country. Prime Minister al Thini, however, said that his government is not seeking outside troops.
He says that the Libyan people cannot accept a ground force intervening on its soil, and history has shown that the Libyan people are capable of defending themselves, if they are given the proper weapons to defend their sovereignty and their loved ones.
Libyan analyst Abdel Baset Hamid told Arab media that despite all the talk of arms sales and outside military intervention, the best solution, as proposed by Prime Minister Thini, is for a political agreement among Libya's rival political and military leaders.
A national dialogue that was scheduled for Thursday in the Moroccan capital of Rabat was canceled. The Tobruk-based Libyan parliament suspended its participation in the U.N.-sponsored talks, following a series of bloody car-bomb attacks a week ago.

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