EU, UK Remove Sanctions From 2 Libyan Political Figures
The European Union and the United Kingdom on Oct. 2 delisted two leading political figures in Libya. Sanctions were removed from Agila Saleh, speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, and Nuri Abu Sahmain, former president of the General National…
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Congress of Libya, due to Saleh’s recent “engagement in support of a negotiated political solution” and Sahmain’s absence from the Libyan political process, the EU said. “Delisting is appropriate wherever the criteria for listing are no longer met,” the EU said, “as was the case here.”