News will not please Western countries hoping for oil deals.
Baku-APA. Libya’s Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who leads forces loyal to the Tobruk-based Council of Deputies, has requested Russia to end its arms embargo on Libya and begin supplying weapons and military equipment to eastern Libyan forces, a Russian diplomatic source said Wednesday, APA reports quoting Sputnik.
Haftar has addressed the request to both Russian President Vladimir Putinand Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu via his special representative Abdel Basset Badri, who also serves as Libya’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Badri visited Moscow on Tuesday, meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian Izvestia newspaper reported, citing a diplomatic source familiar with the situation.
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Source: en.apa.az

Security and Risk Report 06/12/23
MAST’s security report issue 384 is available to read now. In the UK, a number of people have appeared in court on terrorism-related charges. UK