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The Security Council on 4 April cited a 29 March flight of a Libyan-registered aircraft from Tripoli to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as a clear violation of the sanctions imposed against Libya under its resolution 748 (1992), and called on its Government to refrain from any further violations of those sanctions.

In a statement read by its President, Antonio Monteiro of Portugal, the Council recalled that arrangements had been made consistent with the sanctions regime in order to fly Libyan pilgrims to perform the Hajj and called the violation "totally unacceptable". It asked the Security Council Committee monitoring the sanctions against Libya, established pursuant to resolution 748 (1992), to draw the attention of Member States to their obligations under resolution 748 (1992) in the event of Libyan-registered aircraft landing in their territory.

Under the sanctions imposed by the resolution, which include a mandatory arms embargo, States shall deny permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in or overfly their territory if it is destined to land in or has taken off from the territory of Libya, unless the flight has been approved by the Committee on significant humanitarian grounds.

An earlier decision by Libya, transmitted in a 17 January letter, to allow Libyan Arab Airways to resume international flights out of the country had...

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