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Stephanie Williams: “oil blockade, water cutoff and electricity cuts are a collective punishment”

 During “Flusna” TV programme, the Acting Special Representative and the Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Turco Williams, did not only condemn cutting off water and power supplies in Libya, but she also condemned oil operations’ suspension.

Stephanie Williams highlighted the harmful overcomes of blockades at different levels, considering these acts as a method of “collective punishment”. “This is unacceptable,” she claimed.

The UN envoy reported the United Nations’ great worry regarding the possibility of Coronavirus spread in Libya, especially in the light of continuous fighting.

“A big number of Libyan emigrants may be infected with this pandemic because of the ongoing fight,” she indicated.

“Libya’s problems cannot be solved with weapons (…) the military escalation is a source of Libyans’ misery.”

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