The UAE in recent years has violated U.S. arms embargoes, delivering planeloads of weapons to Haftar’s fighters. But with increasingly close relations between Abu Dhabi and the Trump administration, Washington has so far declined to openly rebuke the Emiratis. The UAE foreign ministry did not reply to a CNBC request for comment.
Over the weekend, the U.N. mission to Libya rebuked the “continued blatant violations” of an arms embargo by countries present at the Berlin peace talks.
Representatives from all parties are expected to meet in Geneva for further talks, though the date is undecided and regional experts have little faith in the situation improving.
So far, peace talk efforts “haven’t translated into anything at all,” Harchaoui said, stressing the fact that more than 2.2 million civilians are currently living under assault.
For the myriad foreign actors in Libya, “you think that the war should continue because your preferred actor hasn’t won yet,” Harchaoui said. “And you continue believing in the benefits of brutality, that if the other side is escalating, then you should escalate too, and you should get it done.”
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