The Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abdullah Bin Zayed said here on Saturday in an interview with American news channel Fox News that those countries who played a lead role in ousting former Libyan head of state Muammar Gaddafi failed to transform Libya into a stable state.

UAE state news agency WAM quoted Bin Zayed as saying that the UAE had "a huge responsibility in getting Libya on the right side. "

Extremists of the so-called "Islamic state" or IS expanded recently operations from Iraq and Syria to Libya to Libya and seized the Eastern city of Darna on the Mediterranean coast.

"We believe especially that the countries who played a role in getting rid of Gaddafi, first of all, should have played a far bigger role the day after. They haven't," said Bin Zayed.

The UAE, a major oil supplier and traditional ally of the West, was one of 18 states joined a multinational aerial military campaign in the summer of 2011 against Libyan government forces to topple Muammar Gaddafi.

Gaddafi was killed by insurgents on Oct. 31 2011, extremists used the power vacuum to lute Libya's arsenal of weapons and launched sporadic attacks on the Libyan interim-government and on neighbor states Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria. Endi

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