the earliest deadlines. A growing roleFor his part, the US ambassador affirmed America’s support for the Presidential Council in the national reconciliation project, and the progress it has made through the preparatory forum that was held during the last few years. Washington accountsWashington also aims to maintain the cease-fire, support the efforts of the Joint Military Committee, and secure oil and gas production and export, leading to the unification of the military establishment, as well as calculations of strategic dimensions related to competition with Russia throughout the African continent, including Libya. Informed Libyan circles indicate that the United States sent a clear message in this sense to the Libyan parties, through the rare visit that the CIA Director William Burns made in the middle of this month to Benghazi, where he met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Army, Khalifa Haftar, and to Tripoli, where he met. With the head of the national unity government, Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba, without officially disclosing the real contents of the visit, which those interested in the Libyan issue saw as centered on oil and elections.

Source: Libya Today January 25, 2023 23:41 UTC