The decision of the commander of the Libyan national army (LNA) field Marshal Khalifa the Haftarot to assume all completeness of the power in the country was a surprise to the international community. The U.S. has expressed about it a regret, in Russia and the EU called the move unacceptable. However, de facto the situation in Libya has not changed. To lead the country, the field Marshal first you need to take control of the capital.In the night of Tuesday, field Marshal Haftar decided to congratulate the people of Libya with the onset of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan. However, duty said he did not stop and all of a sudden announced that the Libyan national army in accordance with the will of the people takes on the burden of running the country and interrupted the action “is destructive to Libya,” a political agreement.We are talking about signed in December 2015 Shirtscom agreement, which became the basis for the process of political settlement in Libya. The document provided for the establishment of the national consensus Government (NTC) and the Presidential Council, which was to function until new elections. However, the implementation of the agreement stalled, as based in Eastern Libya, the House of representatives have refused to approve the composition of the government. In the end the Libyan conflict resulted in a confrontation between the head of the NTC Fitom Barragem and Khalifa the Haftarot, on whose territory the work of the House of representatives and the Eastern Cabinet. In this case, and the NTC, and the House of representatives are equally legitimate in the eyes of the UN. All attempts by the international community to reconcile the warring parties failed. One of the major attacks on the stability of the country was the onset of the LDF on Tripoli, which began in April last year. Not given results and dialogue, initiated by the international conference on Libya, held in Berlin in January. None of the parties does not comply with the humanitarian ceasefire. In recent weeks the formation of the PNS with the military support of Turkey has won some big victories, including occupied considerable territory on the coast from Misrata to the border with Tunisia. Dream of field Marshal the Haftarot of the capture of Tripoli remained unfulfilled.”The obsession with power and stupidity has reached its limit,” so the Presidential Council reacted to the statement Khalifa the Haftarot, calling his words the next coup attempt and at the same time a farce. Tripoli urged supporters of field Marshal to surrender their weapons, and members of the house of representatives to join my colleagues in the capital. In the Council’s statement noted that “the actions of a war criminal not a surprise”. “We expect that he will take this step, to hide their defeat,” said the Council. Tripoli, blamed Khalifa the Haftarot that he “turned his back” in political institutions in Easternoke of the country, even though they put him at the head of the LDF. Thus, the NTC alluded to the House of representatives.Interestingly, the words of field Marshal sounded just a few days after the speech of the speaker of the house Agila Saleh, in which he put forward initiatives to resolve the situation in Libya. In particular, proposed policies for each of the three regions (Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan) to choose their representatives in the Presidential Council, which shall consist of a Director and two alternates. They, in turn, must appoint a Prime Minister and his two deputies, who will also represent the three regions and will be approved by the House of representatives. The head of the Council and the Prime Minister cannot be from the same region. The right to appoint the defense Minister, according to the plan Saleh should remain in the military, and lead the armed forces of all the members of the Presidential Council are made collectively. In addition it was reported that negotiations between Saleh and Agil Fitom Barragem, which received support in various foreign capitals, including Moscow. Official statements on this matter yet, but the information comes from the Qatari media that support Tripoli. However, regardless of the veracity of these articles of the initiative of the speaker could not be alerted Khalifa the Haftarot.At the same time, the acting special envoy of the UN Secretary General on Libya Stephanie Williams called the idea of Mr. Saleh’s “positive signal”. Information about their telephone conversation was published by the UN mission to support Libya after the speech, the Khalifa the Haftarot. The words of the field Marshal’s mission was ignored, but was told about another conversation of Mrs. Williams already Fitom Barragem. The head of the NTC assured that in the eyes of the international community Shirtshe agreement and its structures are only legitimate for Libya.Reacted positively to the ideas of Mr. Saleh in Moscow. “I think that is exactly what we all years said that the Libyans themselves need to find a generally acceptable approaches for them to establish a dialogue first, and then to the arrangement of your new state, and foreign players should encourage such approaches,” said Tuesday Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He stressed that Moscow “does not approve of the recent statement of Mr. Zarraga, who refused to talk with the field Marshal Haftarot”. “And we do not endorse the statement that field Marshal Haftarot will personally decide how to live the Libyan people,” he added. That is, the Russian Minister again tried to maintain equidistance, not taking sides with any of the parties to the conflict.”Any attempts to promote unilateral actions will not lead to a sustainable solution to the conflict and cannot b��be taken”,— said the representative of the foreign service of the EC Peter Stano.The softest was the reaction of Washington. “The United States deplores the proposal of the commander of the Libyan national army, the Haftarot to impose changes in the political structure of Libya by unilateral Declaration. However, the Embassy welcomes any opportunity to involve the commander of the LDF and the Haftarot all parties in a serious dialogue on how the country can move forward,”— said in a statement the U.S. Embassy in Libya on his page in Facebook.”The statements of the Haftarot of steel is not a very pleasant surprise for foreign players. None of them can make a military coup, even those who openly supported the Haftarot, for example, Egypt and the UAE. At the same time, they are unable to abandon it. Who else to bet?” — said in an interview with “Kommersant” a senior teacher of the Department of policy and management, HSE Grigoriy Lukyanov. In his opinion, field Marshal made it clear that “will not tolerate any rivals, including among his entourage, he is one, and the conversation should be only with him.” “But in fact nothing has changed. Like a year ago, the Haftarot no political agenda, there’s only aim is to take Tripoli, to survive out of the leaders of the NTC and to ensure its future. Only chance to take the capital he no longer was. Anywhere factors that acted against him before, not gone, but the concessions he will not go. Haftarot do not want handouts, and uncontested recognition of its power,”— said the expert.Marianna Belenkaya
