Attaf receives Libyan ambassador in Algiers

ALGIERS- The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad, Mr. Ahmed Attaf, received, Sunday at the headquarters of the ministry, the Libyan ambassador to Algeria, Mr. Saleh Hemma Mohamed Bagda, at the request of the latter, indicates a press release from the ministry.

The meeting was an “opportunity to review the worrying and not very reassuring developments in Libya, in particular the military deployment operations towards the western and southern regions of the country, which raise fears of a resumption of hostilities and clashes between the Libyan parties,” the statement said.

The minister reiterated, in this sense, “the position of Algeria and its call to the Libyan brothers to show wisdom and restraint, by making the vital interests of the Libyan people prevail, far from any other consideration”, adds the same source.

Attaf further pleaded for “the combination of all efforts to preserve the major achievements, achieved within the framework of the political process led by the United Nations, namely the cessation of hostilities between the brotherly Libyan belligerents, ” an achievement, he continues, ” which must be valued, strengthened and serve as a basis for moving forward in achieving the expected peaceful settlement, in order to preserve the security and stability of Libya and its neighborhood.

Furthermore, the minister insisted on “the mobilization of all Libya’s resources and capacities to quickly succeed in the political process with the ambition of unifying Libyan institutions through free, transparent and regular elections.”

“The vital and decisive nature of these elections forces everyone to submit to the ballot box rather than relying, desperately, on a vain logic of force and violence, which only further undermines the stability of Libya, prolong the crisis in this brotherly country, and accentuate the gap of disputes within a single nation and between the children of a united People,” he continued.

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