Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Libya PM: Haftar to have voice in government

Libyan prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj says military strongman Khalifa Haftar, who controls the north African country’s main oil ports, should be represented in a new, more inclusive government.



“We have no other choice but dialogue and reconciliation,” Sarraj told AFP in an interview in Paris on Tuesday.

“No one wants an escalation or a confrontation between Libyans,” he added, less than two weeks after Haftar’s forces seized control of the strife-ridden country’s “oil crescent.”

The Libyan leader pledged to “quickly” submit “the composition of a new government in which everyone will be represented in a balanced way.”

Sarraj, who met with French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, said: “We should be united to fight the terrorism that is spreading in Libya.”

His fragile unity government, formed in March following a UN-backed deal in December 2015, is backed by the international community.

But the Government of National Accord (GNA) has struggled to impose its power across a country riven by violence since the fall of dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.

Libya has Africa’s largest oil reserves, estimated at 48 billion barrels, but production and exports have slumped dramatically through years of crisis...
 [AFP/alarabiya.net]
28/9/16
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