YEREVAN, APRIL 5, ARMENPRESS. The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on April 5 at 15:00 on the situation in Libya, the United Kingdom Mission to the UN wrote on its Twitter page, TASS reports.

“The UK has called for the UN Security Council to meet in closed consultations on Libya at 3 pm tomorrow, Friday”, it said. Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Ghassan Salame will brief the UNSC members on the current situation.

On April 4, Commander of the Libyan National Army Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to launch an offensive on the capital, vowing to liberate it from all illegal armed groups. He noted that the Libyan National Army “had heard the call” of Tripoli’s people.

Prime Minister of Tripoli’s Government of National Accord Fayez al-Sarraj ordered all military units controlled by him to be on full combat alert, giving the green light to airstrikes in order to “defend the civilian population and crucial facilities”.