The positions of the officials of the internationally recognized Libyan Al-Wefaq government, rejecting the statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in which he threatened military intervention in Libya, continued. On the other hand, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry attacked the Al-Wefaq government.
The Libyan Minister of the Interior, Fathi Pashaga, tweeted, by saying that the sisterly political leadership of Egypt has forgotten that the Libyan people share Egypt's history, belief and fate.
He added that the Libyans do not accept prejudice to the security of Egypt, nor do they accept the threat, and "the red lines are paved with the blood of Libyans who are delinquents of peace for those who wanted peace, and are ready to fight in defense, not aggression."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Al-Wefaq government said Sunday evening that Al-Sisi's statements regarding the situation in her country are in violation of the UN Charter.
A statement by the ministry’s spokesperson, Muhammad al-Qiblawi, published by the government’s Volcano Anger Operation Operation page, said that the United Nations charter prohibits the use or waving of force between member states, and what the Egyptian president indicated was contrary to this charter.
The statement added that the right of defense is guaranteed to us under Article 54 of the Charter of the United Nations and international legitimacy represented in the resolutions of the UN Security Council.
Where is your voice?
For his part, Libya's representative to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sunni, on Sunday rejected Sisi's hint of military intervention in Libya, asking, "Where did you vote when the innocent people of Tripoli were killed?"
The militias of the revolutionary general Khalifa Haftar, with the support of Arab and European countries, have launched an aggression against Tripoli since April 4, 2019, killing and wounding civilians, along with extensive material damage, before incurring extensive losses, and calls have now started for a political solution.
"For years, we have advised the Egyptian government not to bet on the war criminal (Haftar)," Al-Sunni said in a series of tweets via his Twitter account.
The commander of the Sirte-Al-Jafra liberation room affiliated to the Libyan National Accord government, Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Bait Al-Mal, told Al-Jazeera that Sisi’s threat of direct military intervention in Libya was a statement of domestic consumption inside Egypt.
Beit Al-Mal confirmed that the Egyptian President is unable to implement his threat of military intervention in Libya.
Egyptian attack
In response to the Al-Wefaq government’s position rejecting al-Sisi's statements, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing it through a source responsible for denouncing the statement issued by the Presidential Council.
She said that he is ready to waste the opportunity again to end the Libyan crisis, and to achieve stability and security for the brotherly Libyan people.
The Egyptian source added that it is known that the Libyan Presidential Council is deficient in membership and suffers from a serious imbalance in the representation of the Libyan East and South and most of the Libyan West.
And he pointed out that Egypt would be very firm in confronting any infringement on its interests and national security.
The Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord had described Sisi's statements as unacceptable and reprehensible, as a hostile act and a declaration of war.
In a statement, the council rejected the infringement of Libyan sovereignty, whether through Sisi's statements or the support of what he described as revolutionaries, militias and mercenaries.
On the other hand, the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, held in Tobruk, Aqila Saleh, welcomed Al-Sisi's statements, saying that Al-Sisi's speech came in response to his call before the Egyptian parliament at the beginning of the year for the Egyptian army to intervene in Libya, to support what he described as foreign interference and the war on terrorism.
Al-Sisi threatened his country's military intervention in Libya, and said that "crossing the Sirte line or Al-Jafra is considered a red line for us."
Postponing a meeting of the Arab League
In the context of the repercussions of the Libyan crisis, the Egyptian Middle East News Agency reported that the League of Arab States decided to postpone the emergency meeting of the League’s Council at the level of foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Libya until tomorrow Tuesday instead of today for technical reasons.
The university had said in a statement that the meeting would be held under the chairmanship of the minister responsible for foreign affairs in the Sultanate of Oman, Yusef bin Alawi - whose country is chairing the current session of the university - at the request of Egypt, to discuss developments in the situation in Libya.
The Al-Wefaq government refused to participate in the meeting, and said it violated the procedures for not consulting the Libyan side.
She stressed that she reserves the right to appeal any document that may be issued by any meeting of the Arab League in violation of the rules.