Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio called on Thursday for a "proper mission" to enforce the much-violated United Nations embargo in war-torn Libya, as world powers pledged at a recent peace summit in Berlin.
"There is a UN arms embargo that is clearly not being respected," Di Maio told the Italian Senate's foreign affairs and defence committees in a briefing on the Libyan peace conference held in Berlin on 19 January.
"Weapons are entering Libya by land, sea and air," Di Maio said.
"We need to put in place a proper mission to respect the arms embargo," he stated.
At the Berlin peace conference, world powers backed the ceasefire agreed between rival militias on 12 January, urged an end to regional meddling in Libya and vowed to uphold the UN arms embargo.
