Head of the Supreme Council of the State of Libya ruled out the retirement of Major General Khalifa Haftar of any political settlement in the future, while a Turkish position was issued regarding the international conference that Berlin intends to host on Berlin, whereby the Al-Wefaq government announced that it had preserved the field gains made yesterday.

Libyan Supreme Council President Khaled al-Mashri said that retired Major General Khalifa Hifter has no place in any political settlement in Libya. In statements to Al Jazeera, he made it clear that any settlement must be made based on the "political agreement".

Al-Mashri added that the government of national reconciliation does not attach great hopes to the Berlin conference, nor to the international community, to solve the crisis in Libya.

He said that the international community wants from Libya only oil and fighting terrorism. "Rather, he may want a dictator in Libya to guarantee him these two conditions ... We count on our youth, our forces, and our allies to achieve victory."

"We see the defeat of the axis of evil that bin Zayed has led over the years against the Arab Spring," he said.

Meanwhile, Al-Wefaq government forces confirmed that they continued to control the sites that they submitted to yesterday in the Ramla axis, adjacent to Tripoli International Airport.

On Saturday, Al-Wefaq forces announced that they had launched a landslide attack on Haftar's forces, forcing them to retreat.

Turkish position
For his part, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Qalin said that there is no point in holding an international conference on Libya if the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar continue to attack the capital, Tripoli.

It is noteworthy that German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited the parties involved in the Libyan issue to the Berlin conference, without specifying a date for it.

Western countries aim to hold a conference on the Libyan crisis, while the region is awaiting a Turkish military intervention to repel Haftar's attack on Tripoli.

Earlier, Turkish media reported that the ruling Justice and Development Party would submit a request to parliament, in order to ratify within days of sending troops to Libya, instead of waiting until the scheduled session on the seventh of next month.

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The head of the Turkish Nationalist Party said that the party would vote in parliament in favor of passing the authorization memo regarding sending troops to Libya.

On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his government had requested a parliamentary mandate for military intervention in Libya to support the legitimate government, which officially requested military support from Ankara.

Erdogan pledged to prevent Haftar from dropping the legitimate government based in the capital, Tripoli, and a day after Erdogan's statements, the Turkish armed forces announced their readiness to go to Libya as soon as they received instructions.

In the same context, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya condemned the targeting of civilian facilities in the west of the country, in the context of the battles taking place there.

Ghassan Salama, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya, stressed the need to protect civilians and civilian facilities throughout Libya. He said: "The principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution must be fully respected at all times."