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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Troops loyal to the government in eastern Libya have made a commitment to secure major crude export terminals and fields. Abdulrazak al-Nazhuri, chief-of-staff for the leader of the eastern forces, General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), also reissued a threat to target oil tankers that do not have permission from eastern authorities to dock.
While the need to protect Libya’s oil fields and ports is real, this will probably lead to a clash between the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the government in the east and throw a spanner in the works of getting Libya’s exports back on track.
According to a Reuters report, the LNA has mobilized around eastern oil ports and fields.
“We will enter the ports of Zueitina and Es Sider and Ras Lanuf,” Nazhuri told Reuters in an interview. These are the same ports that the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) recently released from a blockade after coming to an agreement with the GNA.
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