Posted on 08/18/2020 2:44:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Turkey and Qatar have reiterated their support for Libya's internationally recognised government during a trip by their defence chiefs to the capital, Tripoli, where Germany's foreign minister also paid an unexpected visit...
The country has been split since 2014 between factions based in the east and west, and regional powers have aligned themselves with the competing sides.
While Turkey and its regional ally Qatar support the GNA, forces in the east led by renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar have received backing from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia.
"We believe that we will achieve the wanted results by supporting our Libyan brothers in their just cause," Hulusi Akar, Turkish defence minister, said in Tripoli on Monday...
Turkey signed a military accord with the GNA late last year, as well as a memorandum of understanding on maritime boundaries, that rattled its rivals in the eastern Mediterranean...
Previous attempts to secure a ceasefire and a political deal in Libya - including at an international conference in Germany's capital, Berlin, in January - have stalled. An oil blockade imposed by Haftar's forces has cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who met his Libyan counterpart but not the Turkish or Qatari delegations, said the process started in Berlin remained the framework for resolving the conflict, and backed calls for a demilitarised zone around Sirte.
"We see a deceptive calm in Libya right now. Both sides and their international allies are continuing to arm the country on a massive scale and are sticking to preconditions for a ceasefire," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Let’s face it, had Obama and Hillary not destroyed this country there would have been no millions of illegals to Europe and peaceful. Kadoffi had things under control.
Khaddafy was old, and Zero was in the process of destroying northern African regimes to enable his jihadist comrades to take over and work their way down into the rest of Africa.
I think he did a great job too in Syria and Iraq by growing ISIS exponentially.
I wonder why we don’t here about ISIS anymore??
Heh...
Isis in Africa does seem to have been a goal of Obama.
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