CAIRO – A lot of eyebrows( Arab league’s) are rising ever since Turkey and the UN-recognized GNA government of Libya has signed an agreement which will also let Turkey put its troops on Libyan soil.
The Arab league has now responded to the developments in Libya and has called for efforts to “prevent foreign interference” in the wake of military and maritime agreements between Turkey and the UN recognised government in Tripoli.
Permanent representatives of the pan-Arab organisation, in a meeting at its Cairo headquarters requested by Egypt, passed a resolution on Tuesday stressing the “necessity to prevent interference that could contribute to facilitating the arrival of foreign extremists in Libya”. They also expressed “serious concern over the military escalation further aggravating the situation in Libya and which threatens the security and stability of neighbouring countries and the entire region”.
On Monday, the UN’s Libya envoy, Ghassan Salame, said the deals signed by Turkey and the Tripoli government represented an “escalation” of the conflict in the North African country.
Libya has been mired in conflict since a NATO backed uprising in 2011 toppled and killed Muammar Gaddafi, with rival administrations in the east and the west vying for power.
In November, Ankara signed a security and military cooperation deal and also marked a maritime jurisdiction agreement with the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) based in the capital, Tripoli.
Turkey is currently trying to win parliamentary support for sending troops to Libya.