Tue. Jul 9th, 2024

US President Joe Biden issued a decision to extend the state of emergency on Libya for another year, until February 25, 2025.

This came in a letter sent by the White House to the House and the Senate, including the text of the emergency declaration in the Executive Order adopted on February 25, 2011, and expanded by Executive Order 13726 of April 19, 2016.

In his letter, Biden noted that the current situation in Libya remains an exceptional and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

Biden stressed the need for measures to protect against asset transfers and other abuses by members of the Gaddafi family and their associates, and people who obstruct Libyan national reconciliation.

In his letter, Biden stressed that there is a serious risk that if the Libyan state’s assets are not protected, they will be embezzled by parties determined to undermine the ongoing UN peace process.

Biden said U.S. action on the national emergency would continue until Libyans resolved their political divisions and foreign military intervention ended.

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