The newspaper La Repubblica said that the victories - achieved by the forces of the Libyan Accord government led by Fayez al-Sarraj against the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter - had opened a new political stage in the country, and that relations between Tripoli and Rome had improved recently after they had cooled over the past months.
She pointed out that the most important novelty in the crisis is that the United States raised its voice against direct and indirect Russian military intervention in Libya by sending fighter planes to the Al-Jufra region, and indicated that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo phoned twice in Al-Sarraj and perhaps direct contact between the latter and President Donald Trump.
On the other hand, the Italian newspaper said that relations between Tripoli and Rome improved in light of these military developments, as the Saraj government regained the margin of maneuver at the international level.
According to La Repubblica, Al-Sarraj telephoned Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, ending the frigidity that characterized relations between the two parties during the last period, after they were allies following the appointment of Al-Sarraj in his post in 2016.
She noted that the Saraj government requested military and political aid from Italy when Haftar's forces began their attack on Tripoli in April 2019, but Rome did not respond to the military request and provided very limited political support.
The newspaper returned to say that the military victories achieved by the Al-Sarraj government opened a new page in political relations between Tripoli and Rome, where Conte invited Al-Sarraj to visit Italy, and the latter also invited the Italian official to visit Tripoli.
On the content of the phone call between the two parties, the newspaper said that Conte sent important letters of support to Al-Sarraj, including the necessity to resume oil production in Libya after it stopped due to the practices of Haftar's forces.
La Repubblica added that Conte assured Al-Sarraj that the UN mission to prevent the flow of arms to Libya would be neutral after Tripoli had previously accused her of preventing arms from reaching the Al-Wefaq government and did not address the external military supplies received by Haftar's forces from Egypt and Russia.
In that phone call, the newspaper added, Al-Sarraj asked the Italian government for concrete support for the Libyan coast guard forces to perform their duties in saving irregular migrants from drowning, and he was also asked to support in the demining operations that Haftar forces left in the vicinity of Tripoli after they were forced to withdraw in front of progress Al-Wefaq Government Forces.