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Deputy UNSMIL head and Libyan PC member discuss UAE meeting's outcome
2019-03-14
[Libya Observer] The Presidential Council's member Abdelsalam Kajman has met with the Deputy Head for political affairs of the UNSMIL Stephanie Williams and urged to separate any upcoming political agreement from the stability and security of the Libyan people, calling for having all parties participate in this line of policy.

Kajman said in the Tuesday meeting that the Presidential Council supports the UNSMIL's efforts to find a political solution to the crisis.

Williams told Kajman of the details leading to the UAE meeting between Fayez al-Sirraj and Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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...
, saying it had paved the way for the upcoming Libyan National Conference.

The two also discussed the current state of affairs in the south and the repercussions of the latest military escalation.

Many Libyan observers say the latest meetings of Ghassan Salame and Williams aim to sell what was agreed on in the UAE.

They also fear that that the meeting was a way to share power which could trigger a civil war as many western gangs reject Haftar.

The member of the High Council of State Abdelrahman al-Shater said he was disappointed by the meeting with EU ambassadors on Tuesday, saying on Twitter that they had rejected to reveal any of the UAE meeting's details and that their message was "you must agree on the UAE meeting's outcome."

"I call on al-Sirraj to tell the Libyan people what happened in the UAE meeting." He added.

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