(12.11.2015) “The fact of the matter is that the U.A.E. violated the U.N. Security Council Resolution on Libya and continues to do so,” Ahmed al-Qasimi, a senior Emirati diplomat, wrote in an email on Aug. 4 to Lana Nusseibeh, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United Nations.

The emails, disclosed here for the first time, were provided to The New York Times through an intermediary critical of the country’s muscular foreign policy. Representatives of the Emirati government declined to comment on the leaks.