Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024

The UN Security Council has permanently lifted the travel ban on Safia Farkash, the widow of the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, according to a statement issued by the council.

Within the framework of resolution 1970 of 2011 on Libya, the committee established in accordance with paragraph 15 of the same resolution announced that Safia Farkash was no longer subject to the travel ban measures.

The Committee clarified that Farkash would continue to be subject to the assets freeze procedure in accordance with the relevant resolutions.

This decision comes after her name was placed on the travel ban list by the UN Security Council on 24 June 2011, in accordance with paragraph 15 of resolution 1970 and paragraph 19 of resolution 1973.

Farkash was born in the Libyan city of al-Bayda in 1952 and was working as a nurse when President Gaddafi met her in hospital in 1970 during a health ailment.

In the same year, he married her and together they had seven sons: Saif al-Islam, al-Saadi, al-Mu’tasim Billah, Saif al-Arab, Hannibal, Khamis and their only daughter, Aisha.

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