The Arab League on Tuesday appealed to the warring sides in Libya to avoid doing anything that might lead to the deployment of foreign fighters in the North African country, reported Reuters.
The Arab League’s council held an emergency meeting in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Libya. The meeting of the council was called on the request of Egypt with the aim of taking a unified stance against illegitimate interference in Libya. It was led by Iraq, represented by Ambassador Ahmed Nayef Al-Dulaimi.
The council warned of “the gravity of taking any unilateral steps … in a manner that allows foreign military interventions and contributes to the escalation and prolongation of the conflict”.
The council rejected any foreign interference in Libya in the wake of military and maritime agreements between Turkey and the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. It reaffirmed the immediate need to stop the military conflict and said that a political solution was the only way to bring back stability in the country.
“Regional interventions that help among other things in facilitating the transfer of foreign extremist fighters from other regional conflict zones to Libya” should be prevented, it said.
The council supported the implementation of the Sokhairat agreement, which was signed in December 2015, for a political solution to settle the ongoing conflict in the North African country.
Egypt has confirmed its support for the eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army, stressing its rejection of any form of intervention in Libya’s domestic affairs.
Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan confirmed his government would send troops to strife-torn Libya at a request of an allied government in Tripoli. On Monday, the Turkish government presented a draft bill on military deployment before the parliament. As per reports, Turkey has already transferred about 300 allied Syrian fighters to Libya.
