The meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Dendias, and the President of the Presidential Council, Mohamed Menfi, did not take place in Tripoli. A few minutes after the government plane landed in Tripoli, the foreign minister requested its immediate takeoff to Benghazi, without disembarking.
Initially, Tripoli was not in the program of Mr. Dendia’s trip to Libya. However, sources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that, on the eve of the visit, Menfi had requested that the minister also go to Tripoli for a meeting with him. The meeting was scheduled on the condition that only he could see it and no one else would attend.
But when the plane landed at Tripoli airport, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tripoli government Nayla Mangous was waiting, with the minister deciding to leave without the meeting taking place.
Sources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke of “foul play”, while noting that the Libyan authorities thought they could blackmail the situation, with this sudden move.
It is recalled that Ms. Mangous, who is a minister in the caretaker government of Tripoli, signed with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu the Turkish-Libyan agreement in October, which is based on the illegal Turkish-Libyan “memorandum” of 2019 which has been condemned by the international community.
Athens’ position, with which Egypt also aligns, is that the term of office of the Tripoli government has expired and it does not have the legitimacy to sign international agreements that bind the future of the country. The Tripoli government is temporary with the aim of leading the country to elections.
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