Crisis

United Nations Security Council

Emergency Meeting
 The enduring members of the General National Congress (GNC) of Libya, unsatisfied with their
loss of influence and current critical economic situation, had, five days ago, seized control of an oil
extraction and refinery facility with a processing capacity of 10,000 bbl/d in the city of Brega near
the Libyan coast on the Mediterranean. Soon after, the Government of National Accord (GNA),
with the prompt sending troops to the region, managed to reestablish control over the the facility.
However, in the process, they have been accused of harming and causing the deaths of multiple
innocent civilians, many of which were being held captive within the facility or found themselves
in the surrounding area.
President Donald Trump of the United States, concerned with the current situation in the region,
has stated that tremendous harm has been done; harm the U.S. must respond to, and that,
therefore, military advisors will be sent to Libya to investigate the situation and solve that
mess.
To many in the international community, the sending of military advisors is no less than
euphemistic language for the sending of military troops, seeing that armed soldiers do compose a
significant portion of the group. To the Libyan GNA, the interpretation has been no different;
they have denied the proposal made by President Trump to help and solve that mess, yet, as
stated by the president, theyre going anyway.
 WikiLeaks has just now released a series of confidential CIA documents on the
agencys involvement in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Among them is a
meeting report that suggests American and a unknown third partys involvement
with members of the GNC, possibly indicating some form of participation from
the CIA in the attack. Doubts have thus emerged with respect to who was truly
responsible for the multiple casualties in the incident.
French media sources have stated that, in doing so, the United States has been
promised access to Libyan oil (among the largest in all of Africa) by the GNC.
Many have interpreted this as another American attempt to gain influence in an
oil-rich nation around the world. President Trump has denied all accusations.
 The Human Rights Watch has just released an internal report for the Security
Council stating that, in the process of investigating human rights abuses in the
country, they located two shipments in possession of the GNC containing
weapons. After conducting thorough investigation of the weapons country of
origin, two nations have been identified as the fabricators of the weapons: the
United States and Russia.