By RFIPosted on 07-01-2020Modified on 07-01-2020 at 03:28

Algerian presidency calls on international community to "impose a ceasefire on Libya", in a statement released on Monday evening, following an interview between President Tebboune and the head of the Libyan national unity government, Fayez el-Sarraj, who paid a short visit to Algeria on Monday. A concomitant visit with the arrival in Algiers of the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs.

For the Algerians, who share a thousand kilometers of border with Libya, Tripoli constitutes " a red line ". The Algerian presidency made it clear this Monday in its press release.

It says its " absolute rejection " of " any external interference " in Libya, " urges " all components and Libyan parties "to quickly resume the path of" an inclusive national dialogue ", and therefore calls on the international community and" in particular the United Nations "to do everything to" end the military escalation "in progress.

After months of institutional vacuum, President Tebboune seems determined to play a more active role on the diplomatic scene in the Libyan dossier. On Monday, he also spoke by phone to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who officially invited Algeria to take part in the next Berlin conference on Libya, the date of which is not yet fixed.

While showing total neutrality in this conflict, Algiers also agreed to receive, on Monday and for two days, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mevut Cavusoglu, at the request of Turkey in search of new support to support its intervention in Libya . A "signal" addressed to the United Arab Emirates, main sponsors of the offensive against Tripoli, launched last April by Marshal Haftar and seen with a very bad eye in Algiers.

Another reaction, that of the European Union, which worried on Monday of an " imminent escalation of violence " around Tripoli and also calls on " all the parties to engage in a political process under the aegis of the United Nations ”.

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