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AFP
Tripoli
Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord on Sunday denounced Egypt’s warning of military intervention in Libya, labelling it a “declaration of war”.
“This is a hostile act, direct interference and amounts to a declaration of war,” the GNA said in a statement.
The war of words comes on the eve of a virtual meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Libya, in which the GNA declined to participate.
The GNA called on the international community to “assume its responsibilities with regard to this escalation”.
It said it was open to “all impartial mediation... under the aegis of the UN” but rejected “unilateral or extrajudicial initiatives”.
Sirte and Al-Jufra to the south represents a “red line”, Sisi said in a television broadcast on Saturday, citing the need to protect Egypt’s porous border.
If this line is crossed, Egyptian forces will directly intervene in Libya, Sisi said.
“All of Libya is a red line,” the GNA responded.
“Whatever the dispute between Libyans, we will not allow our people to be insulted or threatened.”
But the speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament Aguila Saleh defended Sisi’s declaration, saying in a Sunday statement that the Egyptian president was “responding to our appeal to the Egyptian parliament” last January in which Saleh called for Egyptian intervention in Libya.
And on Sunday the Jordanian foreign ministry issued a statement saying Amman supports Cairo “against any threat to the security and stability” of Egypt.
Tripoli
Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord on Sunday denounced Egypt’s warning of military intervention in Libya, labelling it a “declaration of war”.
“This is a hostile act, direct interference and amounts to a declaration of war,” the GNA said in a statement.
The war of words comes on the eve of a virtual meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Libya, in which the GNA declined to participate.
The GNA called on the international community to “assume its responsibilities with regard to this escalation”.
It said it was open to “all impartial mediation... under the aegis of the UN” but rejected “unilateral or extrajudicial initiatives”.
Sirte and Al-Jufra to the south represents a “red line”, Sisi said in a television broadcast on Saturday, citing the need to protect Egypt’s porous border.
If this line is crossed, Egyptian forces will directly intervene in Libya, Sisi said.
“All of Libya is a red line,” the GNA responded.
“Whatever the dispute between Libyans, we will not allow our people to be insulted or threatened.”
But the speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament Aguila Saleh defended Sisi’s declaration, saying in a Sunday statement that the Egyptian president was “responding to our appeal to the Egyptian parliament” last January in which Saleh called for Egyptian intervention in Libya.
And on Sunday the Jordanian foreign ministry issued a statement saying Amman supports Cairo “against any threat to the security and stability” of Egypt.
