The President of the Presidential Council of the Libyan National Accord Government, Fayez al-Sarraj, will visit Algeria, where he met Monday with Algerian President Abdel Majid Taboun and discussed with him the Libyan situation and issues of concern to both countries.
A statement to the Algerian News Agency said that the meeting took place at the presidential headquarters in Algiers, which Al-Sarraj is visiting and a high-level delegation, and the visit lasts one day.
A statement by the Algerian presidency, prior to the meeting, stated that the two parties would "discuss exchanging views on the exacerbation of the situation in Libya, and discuss ways to overcome these conditions."
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed El-Taher Siala and Minister of the Interior Fathi Pashaga arrived in Algeria Monday morning in the framework of this visit, which was not previously announced.
The Libyan Prime Minister's visit coincides with that of Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoغلlu to Algeria today, Monday and tomorrow, Tuesday.
According to a statement of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the visit of Gawishoglu will deal with bilateral relations between the two countries in all its aspects, and exchange views on regional and international issues.
A few days ago, Algeria announced the increase of measures to secure its long borders with Libya (nearly a thousand kilometers), in addition to launching initiatives to solve the crisis in its eastern neighbor without clarifying the nature of these moves.
German call
In the same context, German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday sent an official invitation to Algerian President Abdel Majid Taboun, to attend a prospective conference that Berlin intends to hold in an attempt to find a solution to the Libyan crisis.
The Algerian official television reported that Merkel held a telephone conversation with President Taboun and discussed with him the latest developments of the Libyan crisis, and the two sides exchanged their analysis on the situation in Libya and the prospects for a solution there.
He stated that the positions of the two sides were identical on the need to expedite the finding of a political solution to the crisis.
The date of the conference was not specified, but media reports said earlier that it would be held in January, after being postponed more than once due to differences between the ten countries participating in it (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Egypt, UAE).
Criticians of the conference were criticized for excluding the conflicting Libyan parties, and some countries active in the Libyan file, such as Algeria, Tunisia and Qatar.
Algeria was among the countries that were previously excluded from the conference call, in a way that angered local authorities.
Last month, the Algerian President said in his inauguration speech that his country "refuses to exclude it from any path of solution in Libya."
The Algerian President said during his presidency of the first meeting of the Council of Ministers during his reign, that the situation in the region represents "a complex environment and a theater for great geopolitical maneuvers and a field of intertwining of threat and instability."
He called for "taking into account the repercussions of the deteriorating security situation in the region on Algeria's national security."
President Taboun stressed that Algeria, "which refuses to interfere in the affairs of other countries, fervently opposes any attempt to interfere in its national affairs."