The 2015 Skhirat political agreement, which laid the foundations for reconciliation between the various protagonists of the Libyan crisis, was highlighted at the International Conference on Libya, held Friday in Paris. This agreement, considered as the basic reference for any political settlement of the Libyan crisis, has been cited by French President Emmanuel Macron among the various international initiatives carried out in recent years to get Libya out of the political crisis in which the country has sunk since the fall of the Gaddafi regime. In their final statement, participants in the international conference acknowledged the importance of the inter-Libyan agreement reached in Skhirat, considered by the UN Security Council as the “only viable framework to end the political crisis in Libya”. They also acknowledged, since the 2015 Libyan Political Agreement, the outcomes of the Paris and Palermo conferences and other international and regional efforts on Libya. Participants reaffirmed full respect and commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Libya, rejecting all foreign interferences in Libyan affairs.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 13, 2021 21:39 UTC