Gen. Michael Langley, who serves at the US Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for the Middle East (CENTCOM, “central command”), and Jeremy Bendt, chargé d’affaires of the American embassy in Tripoli, met yesterday Tuesday in Benghazi with the marshal Khalifa Haftarhead of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and key supporter of one of its two rival governments Libyathe US embassy announced via X.

Washington is urging “all” parties in Libya to engage “constructively in dialogue” to “maintain stability” and avoid further “escalation of current tensions”, with the input of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL in English, MANUL in French), the American diplomatic mission said, against the background of the cessation of much of the country’s oil and gas exports, following the decision of the internationally recognized Government of National Unity (GNU) to depose the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya .