United Nations has formally lifted the sanction put on Indian flag tanker MT Distya Ameya owned by M/s Arya Shipping, Mumbai. The oil tanker was blacklisted by the United Nations in April this year after it had sailed from Libya picking up the consignment of over 6.5 lakh barrels of oil to discharge at Malta. It had subsequently emerged that this was in breach of the sanctions of the United Nations as it does not recognise the said interim Government of Libya. <br/><br/><br/>Being an Indian flagged ship, the Director General of Shipping, Government of India, took up the matter. Upon the instructions of the DG Shipping, the vessel sailed back to Libya and discharged its entire oil consignment and the sanction was so formally lifted on 12th of May. The ship is now completely free to resume its normal sailing and carry on its commercial operations.