The Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, said that the Libyan crisis has been following the same footsteps of the Syrian dilemma and it may fall into the same fate as Somalia.
Tebboune told senior local journalists on Friday that the amendment of the Algerian Constitution has nothing to do with Libya and nothing but to protect Algeria.
He stressed that "The tides in Libya do not attract us or encourage us to interfere in its affairs. Our plan is clear, not to military decisiveness, and discussion and dialogue must be followed because the blood that is being shed is Libyan blood and not the blood of those who run a proxy war.”
The Algerian president noted that the foreign parties that have been fighting in Syria are almost the same as the warring parties in Libya.
"We stand at the same distance from all the parties in Libya. We have no expansionist or economic ambitions in Libya, all we want is to stop the fighting," Tebboune said.
Algerian President May Lead Mediation
He indicated that Algeria is the only country that can bring together the Libyan parties, and that both Commander of the Libyan National Army Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter and the head of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj, have expressed their willingness to accept Algerian mediation.
The Algerian president said, "We can cooperate with neighboring countries, whether Egypt or Tunisia, in order to find a solution to the Libyan crisis.”
He noted, "Our decisions were announced by us in the Berlin conference, and several countries violated the decisions taken by providing weapons to Libya and contributing to driving wedges between the Libyans.”
In another context, the president reiterated that the draft constitution is open to discussion to produce a consensual constitution, indicating that the semi-presidential system may be the most appropriate.
He revealed that he handed over many of his constitutional powers to the prime minister.
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune[/caption]
Earlier Saturday, the Libyan Parliament Speaker, Aguila Saleh, arrived in the Algerian capital, for a visit to discuss the crisis that has been going on in the country for years, amid increasing calls for dialogue and a settlement.
Saleh was received by the President of the Algerian Parliament, Slimane Chenine, and the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sabri Boukadoum, according to the Sky News Arabia correspondent.
Saleh's visit comes as Algerian President Tebboune said that his country’s position is neutral from all the conflicting parties in Libya.
Last week, the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi announced the Egyptian initiative to solve the Libyan crisis, telling a news conference that the initiative includes a cease-fire and is meant to pave the way for elections in oil-rich Libya. He warned that military solution will not solve the country’s crisis.
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