By RFIPosted on 15-01-2020Modified on 15-01-2020 at 11:22

This Monday, Moscow tried to wrest a ceasefire agreement from the belligerent Libyans, but Marshal Haftar refused to sign it. Berlin therefore takes over to try to obtain this truce at an international conference, but it is not known if the two Libyan leaders will be represented. Indeed, concerning Marshal Haftar, he poses a whole series of conditions.

Like a winner, while his forces have been staying for more than nine months at the gates of Tripoli, Khalifa Haftar sets his conditions. For him, it is first necessary to act the dissolution of the militias which support his rival in Tripoli , and especially to send back the Syrian mercenaries and the Turkish soldiers.

Where the United Nations advocates the creation of a committee to monitor the ceasefire agreement, it instead asks the UN for a committee dedicated to disarmament. Khalifa Haftar also refuses any Turkish mediation in the Libyan case. In the unsigned agreement in Moscow, Turkish officials were to be part of the ceasefire committee.

A government of reconciliation

Unacceptable for Marshal Haftar for whom Turkey is in collusion with the Muslim brothers in Libya. The Khalifa Haftar camp also calls for the establishment of a real government of national reconciliation which would regroup all Libyans with the approval of the Parliament.

By refusing to sign the cease-fire in Moscow, Khalifa Haftar shows that he is not under the orders of Russia presented however as his ally. He can count on other supporters whose interests always converge with his own.

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