UN envoy: ‘Libya a textbook example of foreign intervention’

Ghassan Salame says between ‘six and 10 countries are permanently interfering in Libya’s problem’. The United Nations‘ envoy to Libya has bitterly denounced the conflict raging in the North African country, describing it as a “suicide” that was robbing its inhabitants of the land’s vast oil riches. The country has become “a textbook example of foreign interference today in local conflicts,” Ghassan Salame told the New York-based International Peace Institute on Wednesday. “ six and 10 countries are permanently interfering in Libya‘s problem,” funnelling arms, cash and military advice to the country, Salame warned. He was speaking a day after warning the UN Security Council that the ongoing battle for Tripoli launched by renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar on April 4 was “just the start of a long and bloody war”.