An Italian news website said that the signs of the end of the civil war in Libya started to appear on the horizon after the announcement of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reach some agreements with his American counterpart Donald Trump, which are developments that will open a new era in the country.
Inside Over added that those agreements - for which no details were proposed by the Turkish and American presidents - suggest that the United States can still play a positive role in international issues, although its image has worsened due to its interference in the affairs of the Middle East region in recent decades.
The website believes that in another push to achieve peace in Libya, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoوlu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov agreed last Monday that it is vital for both countries to create the conditions necessary for cooperation to reach peace in Libya.
The two parties also agreed on the need to expedite the appointment of a new UN envoy in Libya.
According to the site, Erdogan hinted that he would discuss Russia's role in Libya with President Vladimir Putin, who did not reduce his support for Haftar, whose forces failed in its massive attack on the capital, Tripoli, and were defeated by forces of the internationally recognized national reconciliation government backed by Turkey, and after that defeat, Russia sent combat aircraft To Al-Jafra base (east of the country).
The site believes that this is why Trump's intervention in Libya is welcome at this time, because Haftar represents a threat to US interests.
Hifter, as pointed out by Frederick Wery and Jeffrey Feltman of the New York Times, relies heavily on militias who have committed war crimes and oppose democracy, at a time when totalitarianism is seen as an inappropriate solution to long-term peace in the Middle East.
The website believes that if Haftar were victorious in Libya, this would enhance Putin's interests in the Middle East, and for this reason the national reconciliation government led by Fayez al-Sarraj, recognized internationally, can be seen as the least evil in this conflict.
The site indicates that the United States has a proven track record in supporting the National Accord government. In the summer of 2018, when Haftar's forces captured the Hilal oil region in central Libya, American diplomats and the United Nations envoy moved, so that those forces do not benefit from Libyan oil resources.
The United States was supposed to accelerate the imposition of sanctions on Haftar, but was content with threatening him even though he violated many UN Security Council resolutions, a behavior that the United States and United Nations sanctions would require.
The site indicated that the Libyan peace process would be more legitimate if the Libyan people participated, and cited the opinion of Thomas Hill - of the American Institute of Peace - that views the Skhirat peace agreement negotiated in Morocco in 2015 as illegal, because it was negotiated from Before the political elites that did not consult their constituents.
The site concluded that the United States still has a role to play in Libya, even if that means dealing with the government of national reconciliation and President Erdogan, because that is better than cooperating with Haftar, who is backed by Russia, and that it is time also for the Libyan people to participate more actively In the peace process.