Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias defended his decision on Monday to make a surprise visit to Benghazi to meet the East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar, despite a condemnation by Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA). The official visit violated the decisions of international institutions which consider the GNA the country’s only legitimate government, said Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Taher Siala in a statement released on the ministry’s social media account. Dendias defended his decision to meet with Haftar, who he said “clearly, from his statements, supports and supported the Greek positions” regarding the recent Libya-Turkey agreement on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean. “This agreement is legally non-existent in the context of the law of Libya and in the framework of the law of the Treaties,” he noted. “I believe that Turkey will not proceed with actions so provocative that they will totally isolate it.

Source: Libya Today December 23, 2019 12:33 UTC