The protagonists of the crisis in Libya remain active even in the hours of Christmas. This morning the minister of Foreign affairs of italy Luigi Di Maio phoned his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov, a contact that comes after the conversation of the day before yesterday with the us Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The attempt Of Maio is to quickly reach consensus on a cease-fire in Libya to stop the assault in the military of general Khalifa Haftar in the region of Tripoli.
Di Maio, after the trip to Libya last week, is trying to revive a space for the negotiation of a diplomatic, first of all, with a common mission of the european Union in Libya, which interrupted the path to the seemingly inevitable escalation in the military. After the Eu mission in Libya, allegedly in Tripoli and Bengasi, Italy
provides for other actions to support the possibility of success of the Berlin conference, a political gathering that the Un is trying to arrange for months together with the German government.
