Spain Spaniards evacuate Libya and leave the embassy "to a minimum"

The Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, today announced that the Defense Ministry sent a plane to Libya to evacuate Spaniards wishing to leave the country and members of the embassy in Tripoli, where Spain will leave the diplomatic representation "to a minimum. "

The minister explained that Spain, which is part of the 5 + 5 which brings together the countries of the north and south of the Mediterranean can not "completely remove" its diplomatic representation, and has stressed that the decision to leave "the minimum "is a" strong signal of support "the new Libyan Parliament. 

The House will be on August 4 and Margallo said that this is a "sign of confidence" to the process that has begun the Libyan people to "the decision not to let abandoned the Spanish colony" in Libya adds , so Spain sent a plane out of the country and Spanish diplomats who wish to do so. 



In Libya, the minister said, there are 19 Spanish diplomats, and two religious and the Spanish colony of 150 people. 

García Margallo which was speaking after participating in a UN conference on the least developed countries in the Cotonou explained that his department has a meeting held this morning on the situation in Libya, and will hold another this afternoon to follow the developments and the decision to evacuate the Spanish colony. 

The minister recalled that Spain has already advised the Spaniards not to travel to Libya and on Sunday, the Foreign Ministry revised its travel advice to ask the Spanish residents who leave the African country. 

"Some want to go out and others do not," said Garcia Margallo who did not clarify when the evacuation will occur. 


The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday recommended "very seriously" the Spaniards still in Libya to leave the country "immediately" due to "serious deterioration" in the security situation, especially in the capital Tripoli and the surrounding area. 

The escalating violence has increased in recent weeks after the July 13, Misrata militias launched the "Fajr" (Dawn) operation in order to snatch the Tripoli airport to Zintan brigades, which control facilities since the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2011. 

The United States Embassy in Libya closed its doors Saturday and his staff were evacuated by road, escorted by F-16 bombers to neighboring Tunisia. 

Several European countries have decided to evacuate its nationals in Libya, as France, Italy, the UK and Germany.

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