The Libyan Government of National Accord forces announced today, Saturday, that a military convoy of the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, accompanied by an air defense system, had moved from the city of Ajdabiya to Brega, in the north of the country, while a Libyan official confirmed that Morocco is currently hosting consultative meetings between the parties to discuss the crisis.
The spokesman for the National Accord Forces, Colonel Tayyar Muhammad Qununu, said in a series of tweets on Twitter that the Intelligence and Information Analysis Unit of the Operations Command, this morning, monitored the movement of an armed convoy of Haftar's forces, accompanied by an air defense system (Pantsir) from Ajdabiya to Buraiqah, and expected the convoy's destination to be The last is my city, Ras Lanuf or Sirte (north).
Since August 21, a ceasefire has prevailed in Libya, according to two simultaneous statements of the Libyan government's Presidency Council, and the Tobruk Parliament (east) that supports Haftar, which is fighting the government over legitimacy and authority in the oil-rich country.
A cautious calm has prevailed around the city of Sirte (north-central Libya) since last June, after the efforts of the Accord forces to retake it, after Haftar's forces seized control of it last January.
The Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya, Stephanie Williams, said in a speech to the Security Council, "It has become an unfortunate time to stand before you and warn that Libya is at a critical juncture, an unfortunate time, but I am nevertheless compelled to repeat the same words today. A really critical juncture. "
"On the ground, there is still a turbulent queuing situation around Sirte, endangering the lives of the city's 130,000 residents, not to mention the vital oil infrastructure in the country, which is an economic lifeline," the United Nations Support Mission in Libya website quoted Williams as saying.
She explained that since the Secretary-General's last briefing to you (the Security Council) on July 8, about 70 supply flights have landed at eastern airports in support of Haftar's forces, while 30 supply flights have been sent to airports in western Libya in support of the Government of National Accord.
Similarly, about 9 cargo ships docked in western ports in support of the Government of National Accord, while 3 cargo ships were reported to have arrived in support of Haftar's forces.
Politically, an official of the Libyan Supreme Council of State told Anadolu Agency - preferring not to be named - that meetings are currently taking place between committees representing the Government of National Accord and the Tobruk Parliament, in Morocco, and other places (not specified) on a number of files that concern the Libyan crisis.
He explained that Morocco may later host a meeting between the President of the Supreme Council of State, Khaled Al-Mishri, and the Speaker of Tobruk Parliament, Aqila Saleh, when the committees finish their work.
On Friday, Al-Mishri spoke to a number of civil society activists about an "informal consultative meeting in Morocco between the State Council and the House of Representatives in Tobruk," according to the official page of the Media Office of the Libyan Supreme Council on Facebook.
There was no official statement from the Moroccan Foreign Ministry or the Libyan parties about the meeting until Saturday morning, but Tobruk Parliament spokesman Abdallah Belihaq told a Moroccan media Thursday evening that the aim of the upcoming meeting in Morocco next week is to resume dialogue between the Libyan parties concerned in order to reach To a political settlement.