Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday, 2 February, that he was opposed to the return of ships in the naval operationEUNAVFORMed Sophia to monitor the arms embargo on Libya.
"It is an obvious trick to want to relaunch the 'Sophia' rescue mission under the pretext of monitoring the UN arms embargo. I want to make it clear that this will not be the case. Austria categorically rejects it and several other countries don't want it either", he explained in an interview with Welt am...