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Libya: The consultative conference in Algiers to bring together stakeholders in the Libyan crisis

2014/09/17

The consultative conference scheduled for Monday in Algiers to bring together stakeholders in the Libyan crisis, has been postponed until 23-24 September at the request of the Algerian authorities.

This is to give the Algerian mediators the opportunity to convince the Libyan actors and several personalities expected to take part in the conference to attend, the al-Wassat newspaper reported on Saturday.

'The decision to postpone the conference was motivated by the concern to have additional time until the acceptance by a large part of stakeholders in the Libyan crisis to participate in the inclusive conference,' said the spokesperson for the former chairman of the military council of Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belkhadj.

He said that Algeria was the best mediator to play the leadership role in the region to resolve the Libyan crisis, particularly with regard to its position of rejecting foreign military intervention in Libya, as was the case against NATO's intervention in 2011.

According to him, the supporters of the Parliament established in Tobruk have expressed reservation about the Algerian initiative. He added that the regions sharing borders with Egypt acknowledge on the Egyptian initiative while the areas near the Algerian and Tunisian borders back the Algerian initiative.

Libya has been seeing a struggle of influence between sub-regional powers.

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt are opposed to position of Qatar, Sudan and Turkey. Algeria and Egypt are each working to mediate in Libya.

According to al-Wassat, Gueddaf al-Dam, cousin of the late former Libyan leader, Mouamar Kadhafi, who is in exile in Egypt, is expected to take part in the Algiers conference.

However, he has not been given the green light to enter the country and join the other stakeholders.

Senior military officers in the former regime, such as General Ali Kenna, could be part of the key participants in the Algiers talks.

The mediation comes at a time at the same time as France has expressed its intention to mobilize the international community to form an alliance for an intervention in Libya to save the country from terrorism, which is tearing it apart.

The French foreign affairs minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, will on Monday visit the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, while the French army chief of staff, General Pierre de Villiers, begins a three-day visit to Algeria on Saturday.

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