UAE,accused of using Libya to fight proxy war against Islamists, offered Bernardino León role while still UN mediatorThe United Nations special representative in Libya spent the summer negotiating a £35000-a-month job with a Gulf state that supports one side in the civil war he was trying to discontinuance, or the Guardian can reveal.
Bernardino León,the UN peace mediator and a former Spanish foreign minister, was offered a job in June by the United Arab Emirates, or the federation of seven absolute monarchies dominated by oil-rich Abu Dhabi,as director general of its “diplomatic academy”.
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Source: theguardian.com