Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops on Thursday, in the direction of the capital Tripoli advance. “The time has come,” said Haftar, in a online of his Libyan National army (LNA) released audio message. The announcement triggered international concern. The United States and several allies warned of a military escalation and threatened with consequences.
On Wednesday evening announced the LNA is already, to an Offensive by the internationally-recognized government-controlled West of the country, to prepare, to clean the country from “terrorists and mercenaries”.
Since the military intervention of Nato in Libya and the overthrow of the dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2011, African country, Chaos reigns in the North. The government in Tripoli is weak and has large parts of the country under control. Haftar supports with its troops against the government, which prevails in the East of Libya.
In Washington was a joint Declaration by the United States, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates published. “Our governments are against any military action in Libya and any Libyan group be accountable, the other conflict causes,” it said in the statement.
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warned The EU, the military mobilization and the escalation of rhetoric in Libya, the threat of an “uncontrollable confrontation”. UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, was “deeply concerned about the troop movements in Libya and the “risk of confrontation”. There is “no military solution” to the Libyan conflict, Guterres wrote in the short message service Twitter.
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at the end of February had declared the UN, Haftar and the head of the Libyan unit of government, Fajes al-Sarradsch, had agreed on the holding of a parliamentary election. The last, for 10. December 2018, the scheduled elections had been postponed due to the fragile situation in the country. (AFP)