Another round of the marathon negotiations has been there to solve the ongoing crisis in war-torn Libya and brings the whole issue back on table of political talks.
This time, it was a bid from Saudi Arabia whose Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud arrived in Algeria on an official visit, the second of its kind since the election of Abdul Majeed Tebboune as president, which aims, according to observers, to focus on the Libyan file.
The Saudi Foreign Minister published a tweet attached to a picture with his Algerian counterpart, Sabri Bogadom, in which he referred to "the fraternal meeting with the Algerian Foreign Minister, with the start of an official visit to this dear country."
The Algerian and Saudi foreign ministries did not issue any information on the visit's agenda, but local media outlets talked about the foreign ministers' discussion of a number of Arab files, on top of which are the Libyan crisis, as well as economic cooperation relations.
Most Arab countries, including Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, the UAE and Morocco, agree to reject foreign military interventions in Libyan territory, as well as the need to find a peaceful political solution to defuse the crisis in the important Arab country away from external interventions, ensuring the integrity and unity of its lands and people.
Algeria and Riyadh recently called on all Libyan warring parties to stop the war and sit down at the dialogue table to reach a political settlement and end a war that is nearing its tenth year.
Earlier, the Egyptian and Saudi foreign ministers held bilateral talks in Cairo on Monday during which they discussed regional developments and the situation in Libya.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Prince Faisal said that his country fully supports the Cairo Declaration on Libya, a plan put forward by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi last month.
The Saudi minister expressed "the Kingdom's full support for the Egyptian position and its support for the Cairo Declaration."
The declaration includes talks in Geneva, the election of a leadership council, the dismantling of militias, and the departure of all foreign fighters from Libya.
"We seek in all cases, whether in Syria or Libya, for political solutions ... but at the same time Egypt has interests ... and Egypt has been targeted and its people targeted by terrorist organizations that have entered into Egyptian territory from the confused situation in Libya," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
"Egypt continues to support the political track," he added.
Saudi Arabia had previously condemned the "Turkish escalation in Libya" and the approval of the Turkish parliament to deploy troops there in January, and said in a statement that it considered this a violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, as well as a "threat to Arab and regional security."
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