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| Justice and Construction Party rejects France-sponsored meeting of Fayaz Sirraj and Khalifa Haftar |
| 2017-07-27 |
| [Libya Observer] Justice and Construction Party, one of Libyan Political Agreement signatories, has rejected the outcome of Gay Paree meeting between the head of UN-installed Presidential Council Fayaz al-Sirraj and chief of Dignity Operation Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... In a statement shortly after the meeting, which was brokered by French President Emmanuel Macro, the party said any amendments to the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Skhirat, Morocco, must be done according to terms of the agreement and under the umbrella of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... "Holding meetings under the auspices of individual states is a deviation from the political track of the political agreement and a mix-up of it. Such meetings open the way for the agendas of those states to favor one side over the other and to deepen the division and crisis", read the statement, adding that "some countries are the problem and not the solution". The party indicated that the Presidential Council, House of Representatives and the High Council of State derive their legitimacy from the Libyan Political Agreement and they can only act in accordance with the terms of the agreement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 What did the Graft and Plumbing Party have to say about it? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-27 11:10 |