Department twice failed to act on UN letter asking how former naval vessel ended up being used in Libyan Civil War.
Image: Unlimited Offshore Image: Unlimited Offshore THE DEPARTMENT OF Foreign Affairs promised to carry out a review of its system for “transmission of urgent and sensitive material” after it twice failed to pass on letters from the UN about the use of a former Irish naval vessel in the Libyan Civil War.
The publication of the report about the LÉ Aisling came as a surprise to the Department of Defence, who had mistakenly believed there had never been any contact from the UN. An official wrote: “I undertook to send the letter on to you at the time and failed to do so – my sincerest apologies for this. It is an oversight I can’t explain.”
In response to queries from the media about the report, the Department of Defence had been saying it had “received no correspondence from the UN” about the LÉ Aisling. According to the UN report, it was renamed Al Karama and under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army.
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