Salame: Libya is Committing Suicide by Squandering its Oil WealthNews Arab World Salame: Libya is Committing Suicide by Squandering its Oil Wealth AAUN Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame following a United Nations Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, May 21, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidCairo - Khaled MahmoudUN Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame denounced the ongoing conflict in Tripoli and considered that the country is committing suicide and wasting its oil wealth to pay for war. They are committing suicide with their own money," Salame told the International Peace Institute. Fights flared up in Tripoli after the Libyan National Army – led by Commander Khalifa Haftar – intensified airstrikes against pro-government forces. Accompanied by Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Siala and a group of advisors and military officials, Sarraj was welcomed by his Algerian counterpart Noureddine Bedoui and Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum.

Source: Libya Today May 24, 2019 08:51 UTC