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LNA Warns: Erdogan's Terrorism Would be Transferred to World


Thu 27 Feb 2020 | 05:00 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

The Libyan National Army spokesman, Major General Ahmed Al-Mesmari, warned that the "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's terrorism will transfer from Libya to the rest of the world," declaring that his Turkish backed militia and the Al-Wefaq government committed mass crimes by bombing residential neighborhoods with heavy artillery.

Speaking late Wednesday, Al-Mesmari said that 31 breaches of the ceasefire truce were committed by the militia in less than 24 hours using heavy weapons.

Earlier, the Libyan National Army announced that two Turkish planes were shot down during the past two days in the capital, Tripoli.

Al-Mismari explained that the two planes tried to enter the scope of Libyan National Army.

By the end of last November, the Libyan army banned flights from the areas of ​​operations in the capital, Tripoli. However, it, then, exempted the Mitiga airport area from the air embargo imposed, due to possible humanitarian needs.

On the other hand, it seemed that the Tripoli militias took advantage of this, according to the French radio station, "RFI", which said that the airport, which is the only functioning one, operating in the Libyan capital, had recently witnessed a persistent movement of fighters from Turkey aboard unregistered flights.

Politically, rival Libyan politicians met on Wednesday for U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva aimed at ending the latest round of fighting over the country's capital, Tripoli.

According to AP, yet just hours later, the High Council of State, an advisory body to the western Tripoli-based Al-Wefaq government, sent a letter to the U.N. mission demanding that talks be suspended until "concrete progress is made" in ongoing military negotiations.

In the east of the country, the spokesperson for the rival Tobruk-based House of Representatives also requested a postponement and said it would pull its participants.

In the wake of intensified international diplomatic efforts, the U.N. launched three parallel tracks of negotiations to push a cease-fire and resolve various crises in war-torn Libya. It's an uphill battle in a country with competing political structures.