{"id":59984,"date":"2020-01-28T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59984"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:32:17","slug":"german-minister-demands-sanctions-for-states-delivering-arms-to-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59984","title":{"rendered":"German minister demands sanctions for states delivering arms to Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/German-minister-demands-sanctions-for-states-delivering-arms-to-Libya-849415?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/371\/37102742.295.jpg\" alt=\"German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERLIN, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for sanctions against states that deliver weapons to war-torn Libya, during a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a joint press conference, both Maas and Borrell reiterated that a recent international peace plan hammered out in Berlin was only a stepping stone on the road to resolving Libya\u2019s almost decade-long conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World powers agreed to work towards implementing a ceasefire in the country, which has been in turmoil since the 2011 overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi and has become a proxy battleground for rival forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Berlin Process is also pushing for a long-ignored UN weapons embargo to be adhered to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maas wants the peace plan to be set out in a UN Security Council resolution, which would allow states violating the arms embargo to be sanctioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one believed that there was a fast solution,\u201d Maas said, responding to a weekend UN report that the embargo continues to be flouted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese kinds of problems cannot be solved overnight but we need a point to start with,\u201d Borrell added, praising Germany for launching the process. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas BERLIN, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for sanctions against states that deliver weapons to war-torn Libya, during a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Berlin. At a joint press conference, both Maas and Borrell reiterated that a recent international peace plan hammered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}