(VOVworld) - Libya's official government has banned Palestinians, Syrians and Sudanese from entry because their countries are undermining the oil producing nation's security.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni

Libyan interior minister Omar al-Sanki said that they had decided to ban nationals from Sudan, Syria and Palestine after the intelligence services and police established that some Arab countries are involved in undermining Libya's security and sovereignty. The government of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni runs only a rump state in eastern Libya after a rival group seized Tripoli in the summer, setting ups its own parliament and a government not recognized by world powers. Thinni's government would therefore only be able to enforce the ban at the eastern airports of Tobruk and Labraq and the land crossing with Egypt.