Meanwhile, Marshall Khalifa Haftar, commander of the NAL, arrived in Cairo, where he asked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi for his good offices to request an end to Turkey’s intervention in the Libyan conflict.
In statements to reporters, Haftar, who proclaimed himself Libya’s leader by popular mandate, denied the possibility of any negotiations with his adversaries as long as there are Turkish troops in Libya.
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said this week that the two rivals had agreed to negotiate a ceasefire to pave the way for talks to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.
None of the parties confirmed the statement; on the contrary, sources from the NAG, which the UN has recognized as legal, denounced a sequence of artillery attacks by its rivals in this capital, where five people were killed and several were injured.
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