France blocked draft EU resolution condemning warlord and calling for his retreat from Libyan capital
European divisions over how to respond to General Khalifa Haftar’s violent assault on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, have been exposed after France blocked a draft EU resolution that would have condemned him and called for him to retreat.
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