“Libyan Peace Group” launched in Tunisia on Wednesday an initiative for a comprehensive reconciliation that end Libya’s crisis.
The group contains representatives from February 17 revolutionaries, Gaddafi regime figures and others loyal to Khalifa Haftar’s forces in east Libya, besides tribal and local figures.
“The Presidential Council should be pressured into mandating ints authorities to a mini-national-government of technocrats with a specific timeline for specific aims that end the current crisis.” A Representative for the revolutionaries, Basim Al-Erifi, said in a presser in Tunisia, where the initiative was announced.
Al-Erifi said the initiative can be best materialized by ending conflicts, disbanding armed formations, a ceasefire, and reactivating the police and military institutions.
The chairman of the group, Yousif Kashouna – Gaddafi-regime loyalist – said the initiative which includes all types of political views comes by a public demand to heals the people’s suffering.
Kashouna added that the initiative is open to all from inside Libya and from all over the world.
Meanwhile, Salah Eddine Jamali – the Arab League’s envoy to Libya, said the most important issue is to save Libya and this needs concessions away from political conflicts.
“Any government that comes at this point in Libya cannot do much of a work, but paving the way for such initiatives needs better security and social stability in Libya.” Jamali added.
Libya has been split into three – now two functioning – governments since the fight for power turned into wars in different cities across Libya in 2014, leading to political vacuum despite efforts by the UN and the international community as a whole, which led to an agreement in Skhirat in 2015 with no definite solution to the crisis.