UAE Hints at Frustrations With Beleaguered Libyan Ally Haftar
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A senior United Arab Emirates official delivered rare criticism of the Gulf nation’s Libyan ally Khalifa Haftar after he suffered major battlefield defeats at the hands of the Turkey-backed internationally recognized government.
“Some of our friends have taken their own unilateral decisions. We’ve seen it with the STC in Yemen. We’ve seen it with General Haftar in Libya,” Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said in an online forum Wednesday, also referring to UAE-backed separatists in southern Yemen.