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10 January 2020First deaths in Libya for Turkey: according to the Al Arab newspaper, three Ankara soldiers lost their lives and six others were injured. The bodies were taken to Misrata airport to be repatriated, while the injured were transferred to the hospital in Nalut, 270 km west of Tripoli.

Turkish troops are deployed to Libya in support of the internationally recognized government of Fayez al-Serraj against the forces of Cyrenaica's strongman General Khalifa Haftar, who has been besieging Tripoli since April.

Di Maio from Brussels: "EU speak with one voice"
"Just arrived in Brussels, to participate in the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council. We will discuss, among other things, Iran / Iraq and Libya, on which we continue to ask that the EU speak with one voice. We must stop all kinds of external interference ". So the Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio in a post published on his Facebook page. For the head of Italian diplomacy, "the sale of arms must be stopped" in Libya where "the only way is dialogue. There is no military response".

Maas: call for arms embargo and UN trial
"We are promoting an effective ceasefire and an arms embargo worthy of the name", followed by "a political process under the auspices of the United Nations": asked by the German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, arriving at the Foreign Council in Brussels . "If we can't find a political solution soon, then Libya will become a new Syria, which is why we started the Berlin process," said Maas, explaining that tomorrow he will fly to Moscow with Angela Merkel to speak with the Russian president. Putin.