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Egypt urges UN, Lift embargo to arm Libya forces.

Egypt called Wednesday on the United Nations to lift an arms embargo on Libya as Cairo pushes for greater international efforts to combat jihadists in its war-torn neighbour.
In talks in New York ahead of a UN Security Council meeting, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told fellow diplomats that Libya’s internationally recognised government needed to be better armed to take on Islamist militias who have seized large parts of the country.
Sameh is calling on the Security Council to “assume its responsibilities in regards to the deteriorating situation in Libya” and to “reconsider the restrictions imposed on the Libyan government on arms deliveries,” the ministry said in a statement.
He also “underlined the need to allow countries in the region… to support the Libyan government’s efforts to impose its authority and restore stability”.
Egypt is seeking UN backing for concerted international action after it launched air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Libya in response the jihadists beheading a group of Egyptian Christians.
Libya’s internationally recognised government claims its efforts to control the country have been hobbled by a UN arms embargo imposed at the start of the 2011 uprising that ousted and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
Libya has since descended into chaos, with the government forced to flee to the country’s east and Islamist-linked militias in control of Tripoli and other main cities.
Shoukry, who the ministry said had met with the UN envoys of the five permanent members of the Security Council, also called for steps to be taken “to prevent armed and terrorist groups from obtaining weapons illegally.

Chinese Government gives 17 buses to Ghana

The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Sun Baohong on Tuesday presented 17 ZhongTong buses to the Ministry of Transport for onward distribution to state institutions which need them

The presentation of the 35-seater buses, which cost 10 million Chinese Yuan, was in partial fulfillment of the Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement signed between the Governments of Ghana and China in 2009 and September 2010.

Receiving the buses, Mrs Dzifa Attivor, Minister of Transport, expressed her appreciation to the Chinese Government for its assistance to the economic development of Ghana over the years.

‘Despite the long distance, cultural and socio-economic differences, cooperation in various fields have deepened, enhanced the existing cordial relations to the mutual benefits of both countries’, she said.

She noted that since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two Governments had been helping each other in the fields of economic development, trade, educational and cultural exchanges.

She said the buses had been made to suit specifications in Ghana and our road, adding that, Zhong Tong Bus Holdings Company, which was the manufacturer of the buses would provide theoretical and practical training to drivers and mechanics of the institutions which would benefit.

She intimated that the Ministry of Transport after careful deliberations would give the buses out to state institutions which might be in need of them.

She added that the Ministry was also in the process of taking delivery of 116 Huanghai buses from China for the metro Mass Transit.

Ms Sun Baohong extolled the trade relations which had existed between Ghana and China over the years and expressed the readiness of the Chinese Government to support the Ghanaian Government agencies.

Credit: GNA

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