UN: Guterres laments Libya agreement violations as 'escalation is back'

W/S UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres taking seat at news conference, New York City
M/S Journalists
SOT, Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General: "I have spoken recently about winds of hope. But today a wind of madness is sweeping the globe. From Libya to Yemen to Syria and beyond - escalation is back, arms are flowing, and offensives are increasing. All situations are different but there is a feeling of growing instability and hair-trigger tensions, which makes everything far more unpredictable and uncontrollable, with a heightened risk of miscalculation. Meanwhile, Security Council resolutions are being disrespected even before the ink is dry."
M/S Journalists
SOT, Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General: "I am deeply frustrated with what's happening in Libya. And I think that what's happening is a scandal. We had a number of countries coming together in Berlin where they committed not to interfere in the Libyan process, and they committed not to send weapons or to participate on any way in the fighting. Now, the truth is that the Security Council [arms] embargo remains violated. We still see planes coming both to Misrata and to Benghazi. We haven't seen any relevant stop in the respect or the disrespect of the arms embargo, and the truce that has lasted for a few days has been dramatically violated and we have seen offensives and military operations of different sorts."
M/S Journalists
SOT, Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General: "We have equipment, namely drones, which provide from the United Arab Emirates. That there's been movement through Egypt. That you have Turkish troops - that by the way were confirmed by Turkey."
C/U Journalist
SOT, Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General: "We are the guardians of UN resolutions and of international law in relation to the Palestinian question. We are totally committed to the two-state solution and we are totally committed to support Israelis and the Palestinians to come to a peace process with a two-state solution based on international law, based on Security Council and General Assembly resolutions and based on the borders of 67'."
M/S Press conference concluding *NO SOUND AT SOURCE*
SCRIPT
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was deeply frustrated with the latest developments in Libya speaking at a news conference in New York City on Tuesday.
"Escalation is back, arms are flowing, and offensives are increasing. All situations are different but there is a feeling of growing instability and hair-trigger tensions, which makes everything far more unpredictable and uncontrollable, with a heightened risk of miscalculation," said Guterres.
"We had a number of countries coming together in Berlin where they committed not to interfere in the Libyan process and they committed not to send weapons or to participate on any way in the fighting. Now, the truth is that the Security Council [arms] embargo remains violated," he added.