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US threatened to impose sanctions on LNA commander Khalifa Haftar

US threatened to impose sanctions on LNA commander Khalifa Haftar
The United States has threatened to impose personal sanctions on the commander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, reason for imposing sanctions – alleged obstruction of Libyan oil supplies.

As the newspaper writes, information about the threat to impose sanctions against Haftar came from officials from the US presidential administration. In the United States believe, what are they (sanctions) can hit the LNA commander hard, because he owns property in the States: ranch cost 185 thousand dollars in Virginia and housing, which is worth 364 thousand. dollars. also notes, that Haftar has American citizenship, and he previously had connections with the CIA.

According to Washington, LNA Haftara holds the largest oil field in Ash-Sharara and the port, playing a key role in the supply of Libyan oil.

Washington calls on all parties in Libya to reject attempts to militarize the energy sector, division of the country's economic institutions and subordination of the most important infrastructure to foreign interests
– said in a statement by the US State Department.

In its turn, in LNA stated, that oil fields are being blocked by local tribes, opposing, that all oil revenues go to Tripoli, where are spent on arming the units controlled by the PNS and Turkish mercenaries, transferred from Syria.

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