French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Friday in Tunis underlined France’s stance on the control of the Libyan oil saying that the National Oil Corporation (NOC) must align with UN-backed Presidency Council (PC). The French leader met with PC head Faiez Serraj in the Tunisian capital as a gesture of support for the weak UN-sponsored Libya leadership establishment. Cazeneuve indicated that only the PC could be in charge of oil and of the NOC, Libya Herald reports. Last month Haftar’s forces drove PC-backed Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) out of two Libyan oil terminals the brigades had seized. Kamailoudini Tagba is UNESCO scholarship Alumni, interested in International Relations studies and Security Studies.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 08, 2017 14:03 UTC