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Libya Oil
Fight, US
Cites Waha
Consortium,
Ukraine on Tap
3 pm, DC
March 12
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, March
10 -- Amid the
stand-off on
exporting oil
from Libya,
and with the
UN Security
Council set to
meet on its
UNSMIL mission
at
10 am March
10, US State
Department
spokeperson
Jen Psaki
issued a
statement on
the evening of
March 9:
"The
United States
is deeply
concerned by
reports that a
vessel sailing
under the name
Morning Glory
is loading a
cargo of
illicitly
obtained
oil at the
Libyan port of
As-Sidra. This
action is
counter to law
and amounts to
theft from the
Libyan people.
The oil
belongs to the
Libyan
National Oil
Company and
its joint
venture
partners.
These
partners
include U.S.
companies in
the Waha
consortium.
Any oil
sales without
authorization
from these
parties places
purchasers at
risk of
exposure to
civil
liability,
penalties and
other possible
sanctions in
multiple
jurisdictions."
The
UN's envoy to
Libya Tarek
Mitri,
scheduled to
brief the UN
Security
Council on
March 10,
heads 200
miles south to
Washington
later in the
week, to meet
US Deputy
Secretary of
State William
Burns.
Despite
the
oil (slick)
drama, all of
this is
trumped by
Ukraine, set
to be
the subject of
a Security
Council
meeting at 3
pm on March
10, then a
visit by
Yatsenyuk to
US President
Barack Obama
on March 12.
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