The European Union will impose next Monday sanctions against three foreign companies, one of which is Turkish, for violating the “arms embargo imposed by the United Nations on Libya.”
According to “Agence France-Presse”, two diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the sanctions are “modest but effective,” indicating that they would be “a warning.”
The expected sanctions include listing those companies on the black list and freezing their assets with the European Union. These sanctions will be ratified during a meeting of the foreign ministers of the bloc’s countries next Monday in Brussels.
The European Union had launched “Operation IRINI” off the coast of Libya with the aim of implementing the arms embargo resolution and gathering intelligence information about those who violate the arms ban.
Observers expect that the imposition of sanctions on a Turkish company will lead to an escalation of the turmoil between Ankara and the European Union due to the raging conflict in the eastern Mediterranean over exploration and extraction of oil and gas.
