Egypt supports any attempts to resolve the political crisis in Libya as outlined in U.N. Security Council Resolutions, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said Wednesday.
During a meeting with Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on the sidelines of Africa-Europe High-Level Forum in Vienna, Sisi reviewed Egypt’s efforts to solve the Libyan crisis and unify the executive authority.
They exchanged views to combat terrorism and illegal immigration, particularly in Libya, whose conditions affect its neighboring country of Malta.
Meanwhile, Muscat praised Egypt’s role to restore stability in Libya and pave the way for holding presidential and parliamentary elections.
Egypt has made stabilizing Libya a priority and worked on reaching a diplomatic solution to Libyan crisis as it has a direct impact on Egyptian national security for being one of its neighboring countries.
Since 2011 uprising, Libya has spiraled into civil war between its political parties competing for the power and divisions inside its army.
There have been two major factions on the ground since 2014; one led by Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, who now controls the eastern side of Libya in cooperation with the government of the House of Representatives (HoR), also known as the Tobruk government.
The other is led by Faiez Sarraj, head of the U.N.-backed Libyan Government of National Accord of the General National Congress (GNC).
Therefore, Egypt has supported all the initiatives to put an end to the civil war and the division of the power-broker between the east and west, including the Libyan Political Accord (LPA) signed in December 2015 in Skhirat, Morocco. The LPA aims to unify the executive authority and hold the legislative and presidential elections.
In the past two years, Egypt’s initiatives to resolve the crisis have been intensified to maintain the integrity of the political process to meet Libyans’ inspirations.
