The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, will visit Rome Wednesday in line with the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to the Italian capital, Italy’s Adnkronos news agency has reported.
Al-Sarraj is expected to meet the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who will be receiving Macron to discuss a joint understanding about the Libyan crisis, the news agency added.
Sources told Adnkronos that Macron’s visit comes as an attempt to let go with the previous Paris and Rome conferences and end the misunderstanding between Italy and France on Libya in a possible joint summit.
In France earlier this summer, Group Seven countries called for an international conference on Libya in the presence of international and regional stakeholders.
After that, Germany said it was prepared to hold the international conference on Libya as sources cited by London-based Al-Arab newspaper said Germany was doing its best to host a conference that avoids all the mistakes of previous ones in Palermo and Paris.
According to the sources, the conference would be in next November as the German Chancellor Angela Merkel held serious discussions with regional and stake holding countries regarding Libya at the G7 summit last month.
“The German Foreign Ministry is going to receive diplomatic delegations from France, US, Turkey, China, Italy, UAE, and Egypt to discuss the agenda of the upcoming Berlin conference on Libya.” The newspaper reported.
“There would not be any abiding plans or resolutions in Berlin for the Libyan parties, It would be just a plan of good intentions.” The sources told the newspaper.
Germany’s turn to solve the Libyan crisis is yet another in a series of international efforts with Berlin wishing to be supported by the US and motivated by the fact that none of the waring parties has won the conflict militarily.
