After hosting the rounds of political dialogue in its last stages, Morocco returns to the forefront again by hosting the Speaker of the Parliament, Aqila Saleh, and the Head of the High Council of State Khalid Al-Mishri.
Saleh’s visit to Morocco is the second in two years, as he visited Rabat at the beginning of the election of the Head of the High Council of State Khalid Al-Mishri as its president, succeeding Abdel Rahman Al-Sweihli, but the initiative that was on the horizon during that period did not reach its final stages, so the winds went away.
The visit of Aqila Saleh and Khalid Al-Mishri to Morocco comes in a special circumstance, as Libya has just emerged from a war that lasted 14 months, and it has entered into a war that goes on as well, given the level of military build-up by Turkey and the GNA forces, and by the Libyan national army, without neglecting The Egyptian presence represented by the statements of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Therefore, Rabat seeks to develop an agreement that freezes the military situation and provides an opportunity for the two councils to sit at the negotiating table to reach understandable formulas on more than one issue.
The presence of Saleh and Al-Mishri in Rabat at an official invitation from the Moroccan authorities may lead, as a matter of expectation, to a joint meeting that includes the two personalities in order to pass some ideas that loom on the horizon, especially those included in the Aqila Saleh initiative, which received wide international welcome, and was considered by many external parties as the ground that can be built upon to reach new transitional bodies working to resolve outstanding issues.
The issues include the termination of armed groups, collection of weapons, and equitable distribution of wealth, as well as before that, ending external conflicts and the differences of major countries.
