Germany wants consequences for those breaking Libya embargo

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister called Monday for those countries that break the U.N. arms embargo on Libya to face consequences. Heiko Maas told reporters he was “under no illusion” that much work was still needed to put into practice decisions taken at a recent high-level meeting on Libya. World powers and other countries with interests in Libya’s long-running civil war agreed at the Jan. 19 meeting in Berlin to respect the U.N. arms embargo, hold off on military support to the warring parties and push them to reach a full cease-fire. Maas said it was important to support the fragile truce that exists in Libya by backing what was in Berlin with a U.N. Security Council resolution that would result in countries which break the arms embargo being sanctioned.