The Libyan tribes very favorably welcomed the statements made on Monday, August 5 by the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, on the situation in this neighboring country.
At the end of a meeting in Algiers with the interim head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stéphanie Khoury, Attaf notably launched a resounding appeal to foreign powers who interfere in the internal affairs of Libya to cease their actions.
The head of Algerian diplomacy estimated that the persistence of the Libyan crisis is due to foreign interference in Libya’s internal affairs.
“Algeria once again calls on all foreign parties to no longer interfere in Libyan affairs and to refrain from any practice likely to sow division and widen the gap between the children of the same country and one nation,” he said.
Situation in Libya: Libyan tribes welcome Algeria’s position
Comments were favorably received in Libya where the Union of Libyan Tribes released a press release on Tuesday, August 6, reiterating its thanks to Algeria for its “fraternal and positive” attitude towards Libya and its people. , an attitude which “is not foreign to the country of 1.5 million martyrs and its long-standing nationalist positions”.
“The Libyan tribes express their support for the declarations of Mr. Ahmed Attaf, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Algerian Republic, and consider them consistent with their demands and objectives,” we read in the text.
For the Libyan tribes, the solution to the crisis lies in “an end to foreign interference”, calling to “let the Libyan people decide their future” and “build their state according to their own will”.
In his statement last Monday, Ahmed Attaf indicated that Algeria is convinced that the end of foreign interference “will contribute greatly to allowing the Libyan brothers to overcome the tensions and polarizations and to find an inter-Libyan consensus capable of turning the disputes page and definitively resolve the crisis.
