Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin´s interview with the newspaper Izvestia, published November 26, 2020
(World News Russia)

Question: What does Moscow think about the new EU arms embargo mission? Will we see a rerun of the 2011 scenario? Sergey Vershinin: Libya is one of the most painful international problems. It is regularly discussed at the UN Security Council in New York. A crucial meeting has been held in Berlin at the level of the heads of state, which was attended by President Vladimir Putin. The relevant UN Security Council resolution was adopted following that event. The question you have asked proceeds from the efforts that have been taken recently to improve the situation in Libya. We remember what happened in 2011, and we keep saying that the aggressive actions taken back then, primarily by NATO...