While all eyes are on the Moroccan city of Bouznika, where a new round of Libyan negotiations is expected to start tomorrow, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said that the principled position of King Mohammed VI of Morocco regarding the Libyan crisis is based on “that the solution can only be Libya, political and comprehensive, and basically It should not and cannot be military. "
In an interview conducted by the Institute for Security Studies - based in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa - with Burita, the Moroccan official stressed that the current impasse could be overcome "if foreign interference in the Libyan crisis stops immediately, especially with regard to the arms flows that fuel the conflict, threatening the security of the entire Sahel region." And the Maghreb. "
He added that the results of the Libyan dialogue, which was held at the beginning of this month in Morocco, represent an important step that would transform the stalemate that lasted for several years into real momentum.
He pointed out that "the political track is an open right, and it provides a comprehensive political solution to the Libyan conflict."
According to Bourita, "the big step forward in the Bouznika talks was the desire and commitment of the Libyans to sit together and discuss ways to get out of the current political impasse."
"The additional achievement is the form of these talks (hosted by Morocco) because they were appropriate and led by a Libyan," he said, noting that the talks took place between representatives of institutions that derive their legitimacy from the Skhirat Agreement in 2015, which remains a valid Libyan framework that the country's representatives can update, adapt and amend.
The delegations of the High Council of State in Libya and the House of Representatives meeting in Tobruk confirmed, at the end of the round of dialogue in Morocco on the tenth of this month, that an agreement had been reached on the criteria and transparent and objective mechanisms for assuming sovereign positions.
Al-Jazeera correspondent in Morocco, Mukhtar Al-Ablawi, said at the time that "the progress that took place over the past few days was about the mechanism for selecting sovereign, oversight and legal institutions, which is the main topic on which the negotiation has focused during the past three days, while the debate today will focus on the methods and mechanisms of nomination for these sovereign institutions."
Article 15 of the Skhirat Agreement was the main focus of those negotiations, as it includes all the contested sovereign positions between the Government of National Accord in Tripoli, western Libya, and the Tobruk Parliament in the east of the country, where the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar are also stationed.
Among the sovereign functions included in this article: Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Head of the Audit Bureau, Head of the Administrative Control Authority, Head of the Anti-Corruption Authority, Head and members of the High Electoral Commission, President of the Supreme Court, and Attorney General.
In the second paragraph, Article 15 states that the appointment and exemption of the occupants of the sovereign positions requires the approval of two-thirds of the members of Parliament.