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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Libya’s eastern ports were not reopened on December 15 as the government failed to meet the demands of protesters. It was reported earlier that the blockade of the ports would end on December 15 which would allow for the country to restart crude exports from them; however, the leader of a movement pushing for greater autonomy in eastern Libya said he would not end the blockade.
“We have failed to reach a deal on these conditions with this (Tripoli) government,” autonomy leader Ibrahim Jathran told reporters in Ajdabiya, west of Benghazi. “I therefore confirm that we will not reopen the ports for this corrupt government,” he said in brief statement.
Jathran accused the government of letting down Libyans after the revolt that ended four decades of Qaddafi rule.
The group had said it would release three ports, which had previously handled 600,000 bpd of oil exports, if Tripoli let it take a share of oil sales and investigated reports of corruption in the industry. The continued blockade dashed the government’s hopes of bringing production back up to the status quo.
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