On June 23, German capital, Berlin, hosted an international conference at the foreign ministers level, on Libya, a country confronted with a severe political crisis and a civil war. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, who was turning EU-rope, asked the retreat of foreign forces from Libya.
This conference occurs in the context when, on October 23 last year, a cease fire agreement has been signed by Libyan factions, and on December 24 of this year presidential and legislative elections are supposed to take place in Libya. Germany has already hosted, in January this year, another conference, under the UN auspices.
International community, UN, USA and EU have tried since 10 years, after the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, to curb the drift towards chaos in Libya and to pacify this country. But rivaly between two regions, Tripolitania in West and Cyrenaica in East, put under threat, at any moment, the meditation and peace efforts. During last ten years, Occident has seen its influence gradually marginalized in Libyan space, where Russia, Turkey and Arab United Emirates have placed their own pawns. At the end of last year, UN stated that in Libya there are about 20,000 Russian, Syrian, Sudanese, Chadian and other nationalities mercenaries. Retreat of foreign forces from Libya was also demanded by Arab League and African Union.
Eu hopes that, as the calm and legality return in Libya, the wave of Libyan migrants should stop and the country ends to be a migration platform for hundred thousands of Africans.
In the context of the Libyan civil war, France has backed general Haftar, who controls Cyrenaica, because he has fought against Jihad in Libya and France has tried to imagine around him a strategy in order to put an end to the Jihadism in the region, as Libya has borders with Chad, Sudan, Niger and Algeria. But France interests were betrayed by the unfair game of Haftar and also by Turkey, who installed in Tripolitania a kind of neo-ottoman guardianship.
International Conference on Libya, in Berlin
