UN envoy to Libya Martin Kobler met with four Tobruk parliament hardliners in Malta on Thursday in a bid to cozy up to Dignity Operation camp in the east of the country. In their heated debate, Saied Al-Zawai accused Kobler of offending Libyans and being regional and bias to one party over another. Al-Zawai also accused Kobler of receiving a bribe to sell Libya to the Muslim Brotherhood group. Kobler tweeted in his account on Friday saying "Lively exchanges in Malta with Libyan politicians. Early this week, local authorities in the eastern city of Tobruk declared Martin Kobler persona non grata and refused to grant his plane a landing approval to meet parliament speaker Aqailah Saleh.

Source: Libya Observer January 20, 2017 14:03 UTC