National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla has written to the head of the parallel Al-Baida-based interim government Abdullah Al-Thinni, warning him not to use Qatar’s diplomatic crisis as a pretext for illegal oil exports. The diplomatic crisis unfolding in the Gulf – with Qatar now diplomatically and physically isolated by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE and many of their allies because of its support for Islamist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood – resonates in Libya because the Gulf factions have used Libya as a proxy conflict for their differences over the past five years.
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