While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan explicitly announced that he sent Syrian fighters to Libya, Germany had threatened to punish all parties involved in sending arms and mercenaries to Libya.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas threatened to sanction countries that did not stop sending weapons and mercenaries to Libya despite the embargo imposed by the United Nations.
Maas indicated, after a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, that no one can escape the consequences and avoid being exposed and that violations of the arms embargo cannot continue.
The German Foreign Minister stressed that the European Union monitoring mission should increase pressure on those supplying weapons, demanding that violators of the embargo be identified and exposed to all, and that ships and aircraft used for the purpose of surveillance collect information on the entry of weapons into Libya.
