East-Libyan general hands over control of oil ports | News from the world

Libyan strongman of the East, Gen Khalifa Haftar, made control of the oil ports under his authority to the National Oil Company (NPC) – thus ending a three-week conflict that had shut down the country's oil industry and threatened to strangle political reconciliation efforts across Libya.

The four harbors of Ras Lanouf, Es Sider, Zueitina and Hariga were all handed over to the control of the NOC without any obvious concession being made to Haftar.

He privately urged Saddik El-Kabbir, the governor of the Libyan central bank, to resign, claiming that Kabbir was channeling money from the oil industry to militias who opposed him.

. US President Donald Trump, warning that he would take legal action against those responsible for stalemate could have caused a change of heart.

But the move coincides with a decision by Western powers to delay presidential elections in Libya scheduled for December. It has been agreed that the parliamentary elections will be held according to this year's calendar, but the presidential elections will be postponed until next year.

Many felt that the presidential elections, in the absence of any reconciliation between East and West, would fuel the violence.

At the time of the seizure of the ports, Haftar said that their profits would go to a rival oil company. based in the east. NOC President Mustafa Sbadla said that the rival company had neither the legal authority nor the technical capacity to manage oil revenues.

He also accused some of those related to the rival business of bribery. Sbadla appealed and gained support from the international community, including the UN. Haftar's closest allies – France, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – have not supported his decision, leaving him very isolated. A meeting of foreign ministers in Rome, attended by Italy, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, revealed Wednesday that the Italian ambbadador to Libya had welcomed the agreement [1945-19004] and the NOC congratulated the Libyan National Army of Haftar. a statement to "put the national interest first" by making the ports.

Sbadla acknowledged some of the concern behind the capture of the ports saying, "We need a real national debate about the fair distribution of oil revenues." This is at the heart of the recent crisis The real solution is transparency, so I renew my call to the responsible authorities, the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, for them to publish detailed public budgets and expenditures. "19659002" I will work with d & # s. 39, other national stakeholders to improve transparency and resolve this crisis "

The struggle between rival governments has resulted in the collapse of the country's oil production, reducing production by 850,000 barrels per day and costing about $ 1 billion to the economy.

Eastern authorities made a similar attempt to bypbad the Tripoli government in April 2016, but their sale was pr to 300,000 barrels per day of crude oil was adopted by the Security Council of & # 39; UN.

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