Sudan expresses doubts over Libyan threats against its planes
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January 6, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army questioned on Tuesday
the credibility of threats attributed to the Libyan army that it will
shoot down any Sudanese aircraft entering its airspace.
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FILE PHOTO - Sudanese army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad (GETTY)
A number of media outlets quoted the Libyan Air Force as warning
Turkey and Sudan from attempting to penetrate the Libyan skies whether
through civilian or military jets.
“I doubt that this decision is a formal one that was issued from a
body that has an official status in Libya. This decision lacks
precision," Sudan’s army spokesperson al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa’ad said
according to state media.
"If we accept the warning about military aviation, what about the
civil aviation that is subject to standards and international
agreements and protocols that govern its network with precision all
over the world," he added.
"No matter what, this warning for us in the armed forces does not mean
anything because we do not infiltrate the Libyan airspace with our
military jets, and any country in the world has the right to deal with
any military flight penetrating the airspace without its permission,
without threat or warning," Col. Sa’ad added.
Yesterday, the internationally-recognized Libyan government announced
a ban on the entry of citizens from Sudan, Syria and Palestine.
Libya’s interior minister Omar al-Sanki attributed the decision to
Intel suggesting that citizens from these countries are flocking in to
join “terrorist groups” fighting the Libyan army in Benghazi and other
cities in the western part of the country.
Last September, Libyan government said Sudan was arming "terror"
groups after an arms-laden Sudanese plane touched down in southern
Libya, allegedly bound for a military airbase in Tripoli held by
mostly Islamist militias who seized the capital in August.
But Sudan has vehemently denied accusations of backing any side in the
Libyan conflict, saying the weapons were shipped for the use of a
joint force between the two countries.
Tripoli has previously warned that it might sever ties with Khartoum
and Doha over their alleged interference.
On Sunday, a minister in the Libyan government told London-based
Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that information obtained Libyan military
intelligence indicated that Sudanese technicians had assisted pilots
from the Libyan Dawn group in commandeering a plane that struck oil
tanks in the Sidra port during the past week.
The attack launched on Libya’s largest oil terminal saw militants fire
rockets from speedboats, setting alight huge oil tanks and causing
Libya’s oil production to plunge by two-thirds, to 350,000 barrels per
day (bpd), according to the state oil company.
In a related context Sudan strongly condemned terrorist operations in
Libya that targeted oil installations, House of Representatives, the
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates and a number of Egyptian citizens
there, and expressed deep concern over the continuing violence in the
country.
Sudan’s permanent representative to the Arab League and its ambassador
to Egypt Abdel-Mahmoud Abdel-Halim underscored in a statement before
the meeting of permanent delegates at its extraordinary session on
Libya the gravity of the situation there.
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