Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is flying to Libya on Thursday to meet warlord Khalifa Haftar, in a bid to push forward troubled efforts to secure a ceasefire, SIA reports referring to TRT World.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Libya's warring factions along with leaders of Turkey, Russia, US, Britain, China, France and Italy on Sunday at a special Libyan peace summit in Berlin, which follows a meeting in Moscow on Monday where Libya's warring parties failed to sign a ceasefire agreement. Maas' trip to Benghazi comes two days after Libya's warring factions left Moscow without reaching an agreement.
Haftar's militia has been on the offensive since April, laying siege in an effort to capture capital Tripoli, and battling UN-backed government forces. Sarraj and Haftar went to Moscow on Monday for talks with Russian and Turkish diplomats and military officials. They did not meet directly, but considered a draft document spelling out details of a truce proposed jointly by Russia and Turkey that began Sunday.
Sarraj signed the draft before departing, while Haftar requested more time to consider it and then left Moscow without signing. Both Sarraj and Hafter have been invited to the Berlin conference, though it isn't yet clear whether they will come. Maas spoke to Sarraj last week and said he is meeting Haftar on behalf of the European Union's foreign ministers.
“Our message is clear: no one can win this conflict militarily,” Maas said before leaving Berlin. “A window is now opening to free the conflict from international influence and so open the way to a political process and inter-Libyan negotiations on a post-war order” under UN supervision. “I hope that the parties will take this opportunity to put the future of Libya back in Libyan hands,” Maas added. “This now requires readiness for a real cease-fire and both parties' participation in the dialogue formats proposed by the United Nations.”
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