Recalling in particular that NATO, via its Sea Guardian operation, was supporting Operation Sophia in the Mediterranean, the Secretary General of the Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, proposed on Tuesday 21 January that the Alliance help the EU “to enforce the arms embargo in Libya”.
The EU’s Operation Sophia has a UN mandate for this purpose and could be used to implement the results of the Berlin Conference(see EUROPE B12407A1).
Before the members of the European Parliament’s Committee...