The United Nations confirmed that the Libyan government headed by Fayez al-Sarraj is legitimate and internationally recognized, and called on the countries affected in the conflict to realize this fact.
This came in a press conference held Thursday by Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, via a television circuit from the headquarters of the international organization in New York.
Dujarric was responding to reporters' questions about the aim of two telephone conversations conducted by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last Wednesday with Al-Sarraj and retired Major General Khalifa Hifter.
"It is clear from our point of view that there is an internationally recognized Libyan government based in Tripoli and we are working with it," the UN spokesman said.
"As for Haftar, he is a party to the conflict, and he is the one who asked to speak to the Secretary-General ... I think that Guterres sent him (Haftar) clear messages, and I will leave it at this point."
He said that Guterres' phone call to Haftar does not give him legal status or official status.
He stated that it is now clear that there are countries that have a direct impact on both parties, and it is important to communicate the same message to these countries.
"It is important that the repeated violations of the arms embargo stop by many," the UN spokesman said.
Dujarric emphasized that the goal of the two calls is: to stop the conflict and to bring the parties back to the military talks (5 + 5).
The United Nations last month called on the Libyan parties to initiate the JMC (5 + 5) talks, in order to reach a permanent ceasefire agreement.
For his part, former President of the Supreme Council of State in Libya, Abd al-Rahman al-Suwaihli, said that he assured the European Union’s ambassador to his country that the political process in Libya will not succeed, and that peace will not be achieved without ending the rebellion and extending the state’s authority.
Al-Suwaihli described the Berlin outputs as a distorted birth and the Libyans had no opinion in it, and he reminded that the inclusive forum that leads to legislative elections is the best and shortest path to consolidate the project of the democratic state and the return of legitimacy to its owners.
On the other hand, the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, held in Tobruk, Aqila Saleh, considered that the national reconciliation government violated the Skhirat agreement, adding that this fueled the armed conflict in the country.
During his meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Council in Moscow, Saleh said that the person responsible for the ongoing war in Libya is the recognition by the international community of what he described as the illegal institution that violates political agreements, in reference to the internationally recognized Libyan government of reconciliation.