... between Eritrea and Ethiopia. In 2020 Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed played a key role in the attainment of the Abraham accords between Israel and several Arab states. The UAE is also seeking diplomatic solutions to tensions around countries such as Syria, Libya and Yemen.
Small countries do possess important advantages in conflict mediation compared to large economies – as noted by D. Lanz and S. Mason, “small states have unique comparative advantages in the field of mediation, as they are generally ...
The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
On January 18, 2022, a closed online seminar dedicated to the role of the UN in Libya was held. The meeting was organized by the New York Office to the United Nations, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The goal of the seminar was to discuss the prospects for extending the mandate of the UN Support Mission to Libya, as well as the need ...
...
improvement of the security environment
, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy have publicly declared their readiness to use UN Security Council Resolution 2174 and
sanction those
"who threaten the peace, stability or security of Libya or obstruct or undermine the political process"
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. At the same time, the five governments also agree that there is no military path to a Libyan settlement. The
West sees a way to rescue Libya
through a peaceful political dialogue under the auspices of its ...
... described the move as a “sovereign decision.”
Niger shares common borders with Algeria and Mali. It sits just below Libya and to the east of Mali.
Algeria has been experiencing problems in the refugee camps controlled by the Polisario Front ... ... Tindouf region. Some news reports claim the camps, which contain upwards of 95,000 refugees, serve as a recruitment area for fundamentalists with connections to Al Qaeda.
In a development related to these events, the Khaleej Times newspaper and online ...
... Therefore the negotiated solution didn’t exist. Secondly, one couldn’t save the Libyan people just by changing the equation by using force on the immediate battle field. In order to safely send in NATO war planes one had to destroy (make unthreatening) the Libyan air force as a whole. That meant going after all of their planes, the military bases (including bases in Tripoli), the communication sources, radars and so on - and it meant a full-scale attack. Thirdly, the vast majority of the Libyan people were ...
