France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier this week spotted a Turkish frigate escorting a cargo ship delivering armored vehicles to the Libyan capital Tripoli in defiance of a UN embargo, a French military source said.
The cargo ship Bana docked in Tripoli port on Wednesday, said the source, who asked not to be named.
The armored vehicles were apparently intended for the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez al-Sarraj.
Libya’s warring parties are led by Libyan National Army (LNA) chief Khalifa Haftar and Sarraj.
UN special representative for Libya Ghassan Salame accused foreign actors Thursday of continuing to meddle in Libya's conflict, in violation of commitments made at the Berlin Conference this month.
Speaking before the UN Security Council, Salame warned that "these maneuvers to resupply the two parties threaten to precipitate a new and much more dangerous conflagration."
"They violate the spirit and the letter of the Berlin Conference," Salame said in an impassioned briefing in front of the 15-member council.
"I urge the parties and their foreign sponsors to desist from reckless actions and instead renew their expressed commitment to work towards a ceasefire," he added.
World leaders committed to ending all foreign interference and to uphold a weapons embargo to help end Libya's war during the conference in the German capital on January 19.
