Cairo Declaration a serious bid to counter Turkey's plan to divide Libya
Turkey works to turn Libya into a field for a new proxy war that enables it to fulfill its ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean region, namely controlling the natural gas wealth of the region.
To do this,
Turkey uses the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord and its allied
militias.
Egypt,
meanwhile, proposed an initiative for settling the conflict in Libya, given
Libya's importance for Egypt's national security.
Called
"Cairo Declaration", the initiative calls for the formation of a
presidential council that combines Libya's three regions. The members of the
council, it says, have to be elected by the Libyan people under supervision
from the United Nations.
The initiative
was declared by Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on June 6, in the
presence of the Commander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, and the
Speaker of the Tobruk-based House of Deputies, Aguila Saleh.
The initiative
also calls for the unification of Libyan state institutions to ensure the fair
distribution of resources to all Libyan citizens.
Partitioning
plan
Turkey and
Qatar are pushing for Libya's partition, using their Muslim Brotherhood allies
on the ground.
Turkish and
Qatari media reporting developments in Libya insist on spreading divisive
terms, such as the "eastern camp" and the "western camp",
in reference to the two warring parties.
The fact is
that Turkey is trying to gain a foothold inside strategic areas in Libya. It
also wants to give other less important parts of the country to other
international players.
Action
This means
that Turkey is trying to repeat the Syrian scenario in Libya.
Turkish
affairs specialist Karam Saeed said Turkey is trying to reproduce the Syrian
experience in Libya.
"It wants
to do this by dividing the country into three parts to ease its control of
Libyan oil," he told The Reference.
Saeed added
that unity between the Libyan National Army, Libyan tribes and the House of
Deputies would be enough to sabotage these plans.
