Against all expectations, the Foreign Ministers of the EU Member States agreed, on Monday 17 February, on a naval mission to monitor the arms embargo on Libya (see EUROPE B12426A8).
"We agreed to launch a new operation in the Mediterranean (...), as a goal to implement the arms embargo", announced the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, at the end of the ‘Foreign Affairs’ EU Council.
"It will be a completely new mission, a new...