Russia keeps in touch with all the parties in the Libyan conflict, said Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, however, he added that he would use in this context, the concept of "leverage".
"I would not talk here about some of the leverage that Russia has. We have contacts with all actors in the Libyan conflict, it is the General, Marshal (head of the LNA Khalifa) Haftar, and the Chairman of the presidential Council (Fayez) Sarraj, and the head of the Parliament Aqeel Saleh and other leaders, including the leadership of the state Council. There are a lot of structures were created in accordance with the agreement concluded in Skhirat in December 2015," Lavrov said after the informal summit of foreign Ministers of the BRICS in an online format.
"We are at all stages of the settlement of the Libyan crisis, in the course of all initiatives that were developed in different times and our French colleagues, and the Italians, and the United Arab Emirates, in recent years the Berlin conference was convened – at all stages of these developments, we warned about the need first of all to convince the conflicting parties themselves to agree on what conditions they can solve the problems of their countries, state which was destroyed, will remind, in 2011 completely illegal aggression of the Alliance", – said the Minister.
The head of the LNA Khalifa Haftar on Monday announced the release of the political agreement which resulted in the formation of a Government of national consensus. He said that the management of the country goes to the army. Describing this step, a source in the Russian foreign Ministry said to RIA Novosti that Moscow is surprised by this step of the Haftarot. According to the interlocutor of the Agency, "if he (Haftar) offers a military dictatorship," it is "to agree with it".
The creation of the NTC of Libya became possible after the signing in 2015 the so-called Sheratsky agreements – at the end mezhliviysky talks in the Moroccan city of Skhirat. The document was to lay the foundations for a political settlement in the country, but these decisions were never implemented, despite the efforts of foreign donors (Tunisia, Italy, Algeria) and special representatives of the UN.
Last Thursday, Haftar urged the country’s citizens to reject the agreement reached in 2015 in Skhirat the political agreement which resulted in the formation of the PNS. The head sits in the East of Libya the house of representatives (Parliament) Aqeel Saleh has put forward a new initiative for a political settlement in the country. Saleh proposed "road map", consisting of several paragraphs providing for the creation of a new Presidential Council.
