European leaders warned Libya's internationally recognized prime minister o...
BRUSSELS - European leaders warned Libya’s internationally recognized 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 European Union, seeking to avoid being sidelined as foreign powers jostle for influence and gas resources in Libya, pressed Serraj to work for a ceasefire as fighting between rival eastern and western administrations intensifies. “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 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. Haftar may also be invited to Brussels, diplomats said.
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