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Arab Parliament Calls for Urgent UN Action to Prevent Turkey From Sending Foreign Fighters to Libya |
2020-05-02 |
[ALMARSAD.CO] The President of the Arab Parliament ...At the Arab League Summit of 2001-Amman, the Arab states came up with a resolution to have the Secretary General create a Parliament. Since throughout the Arab world rights accrue to the states, not to the people, each member state sends four members and nobody gets to vote on which ones. The headquarters was in Damascus until in 2012 the sessions were suspended and transferred to Cairo. The League is now preparing to move the headquarters of the parliament to Baghdad, from whence it will issue Pronouncements of Grave Import.... , Mishaal al-Salami, welcomed the suspension of all military operations upon the announcement made by the Libyan National Army in response to the international community’s calls for an immediate suspension to the fighting. In a statement published on Thursday, the President of the Arab Parliament Mishaal al-Salami called on all the parties concerned in Libya to abide by the ceasefire and reach a humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truceis not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefiredoesn't mean you have to stop shooting... during the holy month of Ramadan. He said that these measures would help create a chance to reach a ceasefire agreement and prepare for a comprehensive political settlement to resolve the current crisis. He believed that the political settlement is the only way to empower Libya to end the transitional stage, maintain security and stability and guarantee the full illusory sovereignty, unity of territories and safety of its citizens. The Arab Parliament’s president stressed that the foreign intervention into Libyan domestic affairs must stop and the warring parties must stop fighting. He demanding ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... to commit to the UN resolutions on the arms supplies embargo to Libya and to stop sending imported muscle to the Libyan territory. Moreover, al-Salami called on the UN to take urgent action to stop all forms of intervention and facilitation of sending imported muscle to Libya, urging the International body to establish a clear mechanism to monitor and determine penalties against parties supplying the warring parties with weapons. Related: Arab Parliament: 2019-12-31 Saudi Arabia says 2 Shiite men killed by police were planning terror attack Arab Parliament: 2019-12-30 Two men shot dead in eastern Saudi city were driving car bomb, SPA says Arab Parliament: 2019-11-28 Assad: ISIS members in Syrian Kurds jails to stand local trial Related: Libyan National Army: 2020-04-28 Haftar declares himself ruler of Libya Libyan National Army: 2020-04-27 IED explosion causes material damage in eastern Deir ez-Zor Libyan National Army: 2020-04-26 Al-Mirash: Turkey’s Insistence on Sending Syrian Mercenaries to Libya Must End |
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