The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation has strongly denied owning weapons found in Libya and reaffirmed the country’s commitment to co-operate with UN experts.
The UAE urged all parties to “de-escalate tensions and to re-engage in the UN’s political process”, and repeated the Emirates’ commitment to UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 on sanctions and arms embargoes.
The first resolution banned outside nations from providing arms to any party to the conflict in Libya and imposed sanctions on a number of people subject to sanctions.
Resolution 1973 imposed a no-fly zone and established a panel of experts to monitor the arms sanctions.
The statement came from the International Security Co-operation Department of the Foreign Ministry.
The UAE has urged the warring parties in Libya to bring a political end to the protracted conflict.
It has hosted talks in Abu Dhabi on a power-sharing deal between eastern and western rival administrations.
