UAE causes suspension of oil production in Libya by orders from its armed militia
The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said that United Arab Emirates in causing the suspension of oil production by its militias.
NOC said in statement that the UAE have it instructed Haftar militias to suspend oil production, but the militias did not cooperate as agreed in the negotiations.
UAE militias act is “disappointing” especially after repeated statement by UAE senior officials during the last week to endorse the efforts of resuming oil production, NOC said while condemning the repeated blockade in oil exports and calling on the Security Council to account the involved states.
NOC said it has re-imposed force majeure on all oil exports although the ongoing technical problems affects production, after parties to the conflict stressed on the importance restoring production.
Wagner and Syrian mercenaries are now controlling Al Sidra oil port in the east Sudanese mercenaries in addition to Wagner mercenaries are settling in the vicinity of El Sharara oil field in the south, said the company calling on all the mercenaries to withdraw from all the oil institutions.
“If these efforts fail, as it appears they will, there must be consequences for the actions of the handful of states that are undermining the rules-based international order and destroying Libya. They pose a grave threat to Libyan and global security,” NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanallah said.
Haftar militias insisted on continuing to close ports and oil fields while conditioning the reopening.
“The ports and oil fields will remain closed until the demands and orders of the Libyan people are implemented,” Ahmad Al-Mismari, the so-called spokesman for Haftar’s militia, said Saturday.
He announced three conditions for ending the “oil closure”, the first of which is “the opening of a bank account in a “foreign country” for the distribution of oil revenue and that Libya’s central bank, which handles energy revenue, be audited”
Al-Mismari added that the second of these conditions is to “put in place a transparent mechanism and international guarantees to spend oil revenues, ensuring that these revenues do not go to finance” what he described as “terrorism and mercenaries”.
As for the third condition, it is to review the accounts of the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli, to find out how and where oil revenues were spent over the past years.
