Proposed by Britannia, the resolution was approved unanimously by the 15 members of the council.
It "condemns all acts of migrant smuggling and human trafficking into, through and from the Libyan territory and off the coast of Libya, which undermine further the process of stabilization of Libya and endanger the lives of hundreds of thousands of people."
Negotiations led to friction with the United States, which wanted to water down the draft text and remove several paragraphs on migrant smuggling considered too permissive for migration, diplomats said.
Plunged into chaos following the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later...
in a 2011 NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
-backed uprising, Libya has become a prime transit point for sub-Saharan African
People smugglers have taken advantage of the turmoil, putting African
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...at greater risk.
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