After Libya witnessed during the past hours a political and security controversy raised by the Military Committee (5 + 5) following its demand to freeze international agreements and memoranda of understanding concluded by the country with any country, including the military and security, the United States called, on Thursday, all parties there To refrain from escalation.
The US Embassy in Libya revealed that Ambassador Richard Norland and President of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed Al-Manfi
confirmed during a phone call their joint commitment to holding free and fair elections as scheduled in December
The embassy also added via Twitter, that the two parties called on all parties in Libya to refrain from any mobilization that might be seen as a security escalation that might undermine the implementation of the agreement. Cease-fire, according to the tweet.
Wide attack and criticism
These developments came after the Military Committee sent a letter to the Presidential Council asking it to freeze the agreements And military memoranda of understanding “with any country”, and another to Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, in which they demanded the necessity of appointing a defense minister A., and also called in a correspondence, the UN mission to put pressure on the members of the Political Dialogue Forum to issue a constitutional framework for the elections to be held on December 24.
After these demands, the Military Committee was subjected to widespread attack and sharp criticism by security and military leaders and armed militias loyal to the Brotherhood, which rose up in order to defend the security agreement signed between Libya and Turkey, which prompted a number of Members of the Military Committee representing the Western Region to retract these demands and submit to these pressures, and on the other hand, expressed conservative attitudes towards them, in an indication of the infiltration of splits, disagreements and differences in viewpoints into the committee.
Divisions After the statement
the committee’s latest statement sparked a division in Libya among a supporter of its contents, as it was attacked by the Muslim Brotherhood, after its direct call to freeze the security and maritime agreements concluded by former Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj with Ankara
It is noteworthy that the Al-Wefaq government had previously signed a security and military agreement with Turkey, which allowed Ankara to intervene militarily in Libya and flood it with tens of thousands of mercenaries, in support of the reconciliation forces. In the face of an attack launched by the Libyan National Army led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli in 2019.
