Here what's
one of the primary priorities of the new golden boy of the neoliberal
establishment. Emmanuel Macron met with Libya's two main rival
leaders, presumably to achieve a piece deal so that the Western
vultures could start looting the rich Libyan resources in an
environment of 'peace and stability'.
Libya’s
two main rival leaders have agreed to call a ceasefire and hold
elections early next year after a meeting in Paris hosted by the
French president, Emmanuel Macron.
Macron
said Libya’s UN-backed prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj, and Khalifa
Haftar – the military strongman whose forces control large tracts
of land in the east of the country – had displayed “historic
courage” at the talks outside Paris on Tuesday.
“The
cause of peace has made great progress today,” declared Macron
at the end of the talks. [...] The communique says the two leaders
accept that only a political solution can end the crisis, and calls
for all militia to be brought under the reins of a national army
under political control. “We commit to a ceasefire and to
refrain from any use of armed force for any purpose that does not
strictly constitute counter-terrorism”, the document says.
[...]
A
rival administration based in Libya’s remote east – with which
Haftar is allied – has refused to recognise Sarraj’s government,
and blocked the House of Representatives from being quorate. On the
face of it, the Paris deal offers more to Haftar than Serraj.
Most
western capitals have been reluctant to give Haftar any political
role save as defence minister in a Sarraj-led government, but the
territorial gains of his forces have made that an increasingly
untenable position. Haftar’s eastern army has won a string of
victories that has left it controlling two thirds of the country,
including key oil ports and Benghazi, the country’s eastern
capital. The general has already declared his intention to capture
Tripoli by the end of the year.
[...]
Haftar
is backed by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the bulk of the
French military, but has shown little commitment to power sharing and
has been accused of human rights violations in capturing Benghazi.
According to
some information,
“critics regard Sarraj as a politician imposed by foreign
powers”.
If you
wonder how the man that took part in the coup that brought Gaddafi to
power in 1969, still enjoys some Western support against the
UN-backed Fayez al-Sarraj, just take a look at Wikipedia and the
mystery will be instantly solved:
In
1987, he [Khalifa Haftar] became a prisoner of war during the war
against Chad after being lulled into a trap and captured, then a
major embarrassment for Gaddafi and represented a major blow to
Gaddafi's ambitions in Chad. While held prisoner, he and his fellow
officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Gaddafi. He was released
around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent
nearly two decades in the Langley, Virginia, United States, gaining
U.S. citizenship. Haftar lived comfortably in Virginia, relatively
close to CIA headquarters, from the early 1990s until 2011. In
1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia
of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death.
[...]
By
1988, Haftar had aligned himself with the National Front for the
Salvation of Libya, a U.S. supported opposition group. When U.S.
financial aid to Zaire was not forthcoming, Zaire expelled the
remainder to Kenya. Kenya only provided temporary residence, and the
American CIA negotiated a settlement around 1990, enabling Heftar and
300 of his soldiers to move to the United States under the U.S.
refugee programme.
In
March 1996, Haftar took part in a failed uprising against Gaddafi in
the mountains of eastern Libya, before returning to the U.S.
Haftar
moved to suburban Virginia outside Washington, D.C., living in Falls
Church until 2007. He then moved to Vienna, Virginia.
No doubt
that Haftar is CIA's agent in Libya and therefore, no one can touch
him. It is obvious that the French have been compromised with the
other Western neocolonialists, although as appeared in Clinton emails
brought to light by WikiLeaks, the French wanted
exclusively the rich Libyan resources and the
Americans were dissatisfied with this situation. Finally, both the
Americans and the British joined
the race and the Italians also made
an attempt to take a piece.
It appears
that the Italians "invested" on Libyan PMs since the time
of Ali Zeidan (or Zidan).
In the
letter above concerning Italy, Paolo
Scaroni, CEO of the Italian oil firm ENI, was extremely anxious to
develop a new, special relationship with the post-revolutionary
Libyan government and intended to gain an advantage on other Western
firms looking to do business in the country. Scaroni
had the full backing of the Italian government in this matter, under
Mario Monti, the puppet technocrat who replaced the democratically
elected, Silvio Berlusconi, through an ECB
silent coup.
Early
this year, Reuters
reported that “Prime
Minister Fayez al-Seraj flew to Rome from Brussels on the eve of an
EU summit in Malta to sign a memorandum of understanding with Italian
Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni. The agreement aims mainly at
providing training and equipment needed to better control Libya's
vast, desert borders and bolster its limited coast guard fleet.”
Obviously,
the Western vultures are trying to take the best positions right
before the beginning of Libya's final looting, in order to take the
best pieces possible.
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What has become of Qaddafi's daughter and son, I thought they were had become a political force, no?
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