The Tunis Declaration, which was drafted during the 30th Arab Summit on March 31, announces Arab countries’ support to Libya in the fight against terrorism and reaching political solution.
The declaration also approved the dialogue hosted by the Arab League, the European Union, the African Union and the United Nations to stress the importance of reaching the political solution in Libya.
During the summit, head of the Presidency Council (PC) Faiez al-Sarraj, who led the participating 40-member Libyan delegation, emphasized that Libya should not be “militarized,” and that all Libyans aspire to reach a solution at the National Forum, set to be held in two weeks in Libya’s city of Ghadames.
Sarraj’s government is strongly represented in the summit, but the rival Interim Government in eastern Libya, backed by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, is not.
The 21-item declaration also focuses on the latest political developments of the Palestinian struggle for a state, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Syrian crisis and it’s occupied Golan Heights, as well as the situation in Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Lebanon.
It reintroduced the Arab Peace Initiative, which was endorsed by the Arab League’s 22 members at the March 2002 Beirut summit, to offer Israel Arab recognition and give Palestinians a state, an initiative that Israel has not approved thus far.
