The United Nations has prepared an internal document outlining Libya's support paths towards a permanent ceasefire and a firm application of the arms embargo to it, and according to the paper seen by the German news agency DPA, the draft final statement of the Libya conference to be held in Berlin today, 11 Arab and Western countries concerned with the Libyan file are participating, in addition to representatives of four international and regional institutions, which include six items, including reforms in the fields of economy and security, as well as a ceasefire and the implementation of the arms embargo.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, recently referred the paper to the members of the UN Security Council, and it is scheduled to receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel this afternoon, representatives of the countries involved in the Libyan conflict, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Also, the winner of Ankara-backed Al-Wefaq government, Fayez al-Sarraj, and the leader of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, will also participate in the conference.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi headed a delegation to Germany yesterday to participate in the Berlin conference on Libya, where he received an invitation from Merkel to participate in the activities of the conference aimed at achieving a peaceful solution to the Libyan conflict.
For his part, Ghassan Salama, the United Nations special envoy to Libya, considered that Libya needs to "stop all external interference in its affairs." He said in an interview with "France Press": "Every external intervention could have a calming effect in the short term." , Referring in particular to the cease-fire that came into effect in Libya last Sunday, with an initiative by Moscow and Ankara.
Salama added: "Because what we have today is just a truce, we want to transform it into an actual cease-fire, with control and separation between the parties to the conflict, and the redeployment of heavy weapons outside civilian areas." He stressed that this truce must hold.
He continued that the Berlin conference, which is supposed to start at 14:00 Berlin time, will come out with a final data package dealing with support for the ceasefire, and in support of a Libyan internal conference that is supposed to be held in Geneva at the end of the month.
Salama expressed his "happiness" over the truce in Tripoli, stressing "that it must remain steadfast" for the "Libyans", and expressed his hope that the Berlin conference would be an opportunity to turn the truce into a complete and complete ceasefire.
He added, "I am not pessimistic to say that the Berlin conference will not help anything, but I do not think that it will be the end of international divisions, and if we can reduce and reduce divisions, especially the regional divisions that we saw recently, that would be good."
He explained that the Berlin conference will come out with a declaration among heads of state that is supposed to be transformed into a resolution of the UN Security Council in the coming days, and specifies the ways that should be followed in various fields, the first of which is to strengthen the ceasefire, and the second is the commitment to implement the arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, which has not been implemented to Significantly, the third item covers the security situation, especially in the capital, and the future of armed militias in Tripoli and outside Tripoli, as well as researching urgent social and economic measures in the country, and supporting the relaunching of the political process in Libya through the Geneva conference.
He pointed out that the internal Libyan conference is supposed to include 13 representatives from the Libyan parliament, and 13 from the State Council that holds power in Tripoli, in addition to 13 or 14 people named by the United Nations from the components of Libyan society, indicating that this conference may be held at the end of the month if The participants were named during the next two days, and he expressed his hope to form a government of national unity that will be produced by the Libyan-Libyan dialogue in the coming weeks.
In addition, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an article in the Politico magazine published yesterday that "terrorist organizations will find a foothold in Europe if the Al-Sarraj government (which Ankara supports) falls," and added: "Europe will face a new set of problems and threats." If the Tripoli government falls, you will find terrorist organizations such as (ISIS and Al Qaeda), who have suffered military defeats in Syria and Iraq, fertile ground to stand again on their feet. ”Erdogan stressed that the road to peace in Libya runs through his country.