The spotlight of diplomacy turned back to Libya, which after the end of the Gaddafi era, the civil war, the clash between the Al Serraj government and General Haftar's militias and the formation of a new national unity executive continues to seek stability .
A summit conference was held in Paris dedicated to the situation in the North African country, which saw the participation, as well as the French President Emmanuel Macron and the two Libyan leaders - President of the Presidential Council Al Menfi and Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba - also of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who chaired the summit with Macron under the aegis of the UN.
On the occasion it was confirmed that three hundred foreign mercenaries and fighters active in the areas of eastern Libya controlled by Haftar will be repatriated "at the request of France". Macron himself urged Russia and Turkey to recall their fighters "without further delay".
The shared priority is to strengthen security to allow the next political elections, set at the end of the year, to be held.
"One of the objectives of the Paris Conference on Libya was to hold the elections on December 24 - Macron said in the final conference - and the international community supports this calendar. The key now for the smooth running is the role of the Libyan authorities in the coming weeks for foster an inclusive process ", concluded the French president. Both France and Germany therefore ensured "support and collaboration" and "joint efforts" to reach the goal.
Willingness to do its part also from Italy, with Prime Minister Draghi underlining the pillars on which joint efforts to pacify the country must be based. That is: free elections, an electoral law to be able to do them, the maintenance of the ceasefire and, finally, respect for human rights.
Draghi also touched on the issue of immigration from the Libyan coasts, especially towards Italy. "These continuous landings" of migrants "in Italy make the situation unsustainable: the EU must find an agreement on this front", said the premier. "We ourselves must be able to invest more in Libya, to spend more money to create more humane conditions on the immigration front, which often does not originate in Libya but from neighboring countries", he added.
(Unioneonline / lf)