European leaders warned‘s internationally recognised prime minister on Wednesday against allowing Turkish troops on Libyan soil or agreeing to a natural gas deal with Turkey to avoid worsening the latest turmoil in the country.
The stakes are high – lawlessness in Libya has in recent years disrupted the OPEC member’s oil output, fuelled migrants muggling to Europe and given space to Islamist extremists. “We want to avoid Libya becoming the scene of proxy wars,”Maas said, referring to Turkey’s plans for military aid for Serraj and Russia’s support for the premier’s rival in the east, Khalifa Haftar. “Libya cannot become a second Syria and so we need rapidly to enter a political process an agreement on an effective ceasefire and an arms embargo,” Maas said, adding he wanted a summit on Libya in Berlin in the coming weeks.
Turkey says the deployment was requested by Serraj’s government. Libya has been torn by factional conflict since dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s fall to a NATO-backed uprising in 2011. Haftar, who was a general in Gaddafi’s army and whose forces hold much of Libya’s east and south, is making a renewed attempt to capture Tripoli, the capital located in the northwest.
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