FILE PHOTO: U.N. Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, Libya, April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Hani Amara/File Photo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Libya is on the brink of a civil war that could "lead to the permanent division of the country," a top U.N. official warned the Security Council on Tuesday as he urged the world body to stop countries that were fuelling the conflict with weapons.
U.N. Libya envoy Ghassan Salame did not name any countries supplying arms to the U.N.-recognised government of national accord (GNA) or rival eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA).
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