Islamabad/Pakistan; The Foreign Ministry of the Government of National Accord Libya has condemned in the strongest terms the aggressive operation carried out by Hafter Forces on Tripoli, and his continued escalation of that aggression regardless the International calls for him to stop it. And in a serious precedence, his warplanes attacked Mitiga International Airport , Monday noon- 8 April 2019, causing panic terror, horror and terror among the masses of citizens inside and outside the airport.
In a statement issued after the attacks on airport the Ministry spokesperson said that it also led to the destruction of some public properties and infrastructure of the airport, ignoring the condition of the country is undergoing during the years following the incidents of the 17th of February Revolution i.e. efforts that were exerted and still being exerted to bring the country out of chaos and fragmentation to a s stabilized phase, on the route to building the democratic civil state; the State of institutions and rule of law, via strenuous rounds of negotiations and understanding. With this, the forces of Mr. Hafter also violated all the national and international norms and conventions, let alone the humanitarian ones, in a flagrant challenge to the international norms and international Law that provides for and emphasizes the need to spare citizens armed conflicts, and not to expose them directly or indirectly to the dangers of those conflicts, and he also ignored their warning to him against the consequences of that.
These acts have been incriminated by the international legal stipulations, either convention or their complementary protocols, including Chicago Convention of 1944 on regulating civil aviation rules.
Furthermore, the complementary Protocol (of Convention for Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of civil aviation) Montreal 1988, in its Article 1-d on suppressing unlawful acts of violence in airports that serve the international civil aviation, which stipulates
“any person who destroys or damages air navigation facilities or interferes with their operation, if any such act is likely to endanger the safety of air crafts ”
incriminates those acts. The Convention for Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of international civil aviation (Beijing 2010) and all its Complementary Protocols incriminate these acts, and classifies them as terrorist acts, which are provided for at the Secretary Council Resolution No 2309/2016.
The Foreign Ministry of the Government of National Accord , hereby, calls upon the International Community – through the United Nations and all international agencies, first of which is the Civil Aviation Organisation – to bear their responsibilities vis-a-vis this aggression.
