Tunisia proposes to hold tripartite meeting to discuss issue

A Tunisian proposal to hold a high-level meeting involving Tunisian President Béji Kayed Sebsi, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sallal on the sidelines of the Arab summit in Amman, This month, to discuss the developments of the Libyan crisis, according to media reports.

The reports mentioned that the proposal aims at discussing the serious developments in the Libyan arena recently and seeking to reassemble the parties of the Libyan crisis to the table of dialogue to find political solution. Algeria and Egypt do not mind the convening of the high-level meeting, especially in view of the worsening repercussions of the security in Libya. This situation has become a major concern for Libya's neighboring countries, especially Algeria and Tunisia.

Tunisia presented this conference after it decided to postpone the tripartite presidential summit which would have brought together Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Tunisian President Béji Kayed Sebsi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to statements made by Tunisian Foreign Minister Khamis Jahnawi.

The recent developments in Benghazi and the capital of Tripoli have increased the concerns of neighboring countries. Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt have stepped up their efforts to impose a serious political solution to stop internal fighting and bloodshed. 

Algeria is striving to bring together the Libyan parties at the dialogue table and to embody the national reconciliation between them. This initiative has received considerable support from a number of countries such as Germany and Britain.

The British ambassador to Libya, Peter Millett, said that Algeria is the most candidate to play an excellent role in resolving the Libyan crisis because it is in contact with all Libyan parties, stressing that Britain supports a Libyan-Libyan political solution without any foreign military intervention. 

Ambassador Millet said: "I discussed with the Algerian official the situation in Libya and the way of cooperation for the establishment of peace and stability in Libya. We share the same objectives with Algeria, especially the achievement of peace and the preference for a political solution."

In Tripoli, The UN Secretary General Special Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler on Monday warned that the escalating violence in Libya threatened a widespread conflict, urging all parties to the conflict, to put Libya and its unity and territorial integrity first.
 
 In a statement from Tunisia, Kobler said 'the escalation across Libya was the result of security situation in Tripoli, and the events in Misrata and Benghazi, as well as violence and hate speech and mutilation of bodies in Libya are unacceptable at all.

 He also stressed the need to restore calm, and respect for elected bodies and freedom of expression, mobilization of forces, hostile actions and hate speech are acts that constitute real threat which could lead to wide scale military confrontation in the country. He appealed to Libyans to commit to the political agreement and to speed up the security arrangements which call for withdrawal of armed groups from the capital and deployment of army and police units.