By Angus McDowall and Ahmed ElumamiSIRTE, Libya, June 17 (Reuters) - Libya's oil blockade would likely end if the central bank supplies the funds for the budget that parliament approved this week, the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, told Reuters. Since April, groups in the east have forcibly closed many Libyan oil facilities to demand that Bashagha take power in the capital, blockading much of Libya's oil output and putting new pressure on world energy prices. It happened as a result of the anger of the residents of the Oil Crescent and the oil fields when they saw the expired government in Tripoli," Bashagha said. "There will be no movement of force from east to west or west to east," Bashagha said. Those forces, under commander Khalifa Haftar, are allied to the parliament which now backs Bashagha as prime minister.

Source: Libya Today June 17, 2022 15:35 UTC