The “liberation” of Sirte and Jufra from Khalifa Haftar’s forces has become “more urgent than ever” for Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) following the deployment of mercenaries in the country, the United Nations-recognised government’s army spokesperson said.
In a statement on Saturday, Muhammad Qanunu said “Sirte was the most dangerous place in Libya after it became a focal point for mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Company”, who he described as “criminal gangs”.
On Saturday, Libya’s permanent representative to the UN called for the United States and the European Union to impose sanctions over the activities of mercenaries and other actors in Libya.
Qanunu held Libyan parties “that have supported the rebels” responsible for the presence of Russian, Syrian and African mercenaries and their control of the oil fields in Libya.
He added that responsibility for the situation in Libya also fell on the shoulders of “Arab and foreign countries that contributed to bringing them [mercenaries] in the first place”.
On Saturday, the prime minister of Libya’s GNA, Fayez al-Sarraj, met with his Italian counterpart Giuseppe Conte in Rome to discuss the situation in the country and the return of Italian firms to work in Libya.
Source: aljazeera.com
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