An annual report of United Nations experts on Libya, which was recently submitted to the Security Council, confirmed that the UN arms embargo imposed since 2011 on this country “remains ineffective.”
A summary of the report confirmed that UN member states continue to send weapons to Libya in violation of the UN resolution, stressing that the largest part of Libyan territory is still under the control of armed groups.
The experts said that the continued presence of Chadian, Sudanese and Syrian fighters, and private military companies in the country, still poses a serious threat to the security of Libya and the region.
According to the British Guardian newspaper (The Guardian), which obtained the entire report, the experts again accused the mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Group of laying mines in civilian areas in Libya, without specifying their locations.
The experts also denounced the continuation of massive violations of international humanitarian law on a large scale and with complete impunity, noting that 7 Libyan armed groups have systematically resorted to arbitrary and illegal arrests of supposed opponents.
United Nations experts also confirmed that they had monitored cases of maritime piracy against merchant ships.
After more than a decade of chaos following the fall of the regime of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, since the beginning of March, there have been two competing governments in Libya, a situation that it had previously witnessed between 2014 and 2021, and there are still no indications that the political crisis may resolve soon.