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This is not a question of abstract principle related to the claim of inviolable national sovereignty. For the strong man of Cyrenaica, General Khalifa Haftar, "the Italian interference" in the internal affairs of Libya, is something more concrete and closer: a threat to his never-hidden ambitions to become the internal dominus, able to put an end to the Libyan armed chaos. But on his way, the former Kadhafi officer finds Italy, whose government decided to support "the man from Tripoli," the prime minister of an internationally recognized but incapable government. to control the capital itself. This man is Fayez al-Serraj
Crossing Libyan and Italian sources, HuffPost can reconstruct the crucial pbadage that convinced Haftar, and the militias who support him, that Rome was on the other side of the border. Barricade: This pbadage is the recent mission to Tripoli of the Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. On this occasion, the owner of the Viminale made a total opening of credit to Serraj and his men, promising means to the Coast Guard loyal to the Government of Tripoli, and baduring that part of the financial resources of the Government Africa Fund EU would be allocated to Libya as a function of containing migratory flows on the Mediterranean route. For Haftar, this support is an implicit statement of hostility, which comes five months after the presidential and legislative elections of December 10 with Serraj at the Paris summit (May 29), strongly desired by French President Emmanuel Macron
. It appears that the Libyan institutions will no longer be divided between Tripoli and Tobruk, but will be unified, just in view of the elections decided on December 10th. For Tobruk's representatives, this implied "equal treatment" between the parties to the dispute. And always for Tobruk, the Italian attitude failed to this involvement. In response to the challenge of Rome, Haftar and the militias who support him play the boat card to launch a warning-blackmail to Italy, to say that this is not Serraj the Libyan Erdogan, and you discover at your expense.
between the one who commands "the Libyan National Army" (Lna), a militia of about 40,000 men, and Italy who chose Serraj, a recomposition seems more and more problematic . Especially now that the government has decided to translate the statements of support to Tripoli into action. Italy will donate to the ten patrols of the Libyan Coast Guard and two naval units of the Guardia di Finanza, in accordance with the provisions of the decree under consideration by the Council of Ministers which also allocates a little less from one million and 400 thousand euros in two years. maintenance of the means and training of the Navy and Libyan Coast Guard personnel.
Means and financial resources have only one recipient: the Government of Tripoli. The preparation of the decree also wants to be the answer, conciliatory, to the spokesman of the Coast Guard of Tripoli, Admiral Ayoub Qbadem, who, contacted by & # 39; 19459005 Agi had qualified as " political propaganda "sending out patrol boats announced in recent days by the Italian Minister of the Interior. A position, however, that contrasts with that of the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Navy, Admiral Salem Rahuma. The latter has indeed wished that Italy provide "as soon as possible" other means to the Coast Guard of Tripoli to fight against the trafficking of human beings and to do "the good" of the migrants. "We have a very strong partnership with Italy: I am sure that Italy will further support the Libyan Navy and the Coast Guard," said Admiral Ansa. "I would like this help to arrive as soon as possible, I am sure it will come for the good of the migrants," he added.
The "good of migrants" evoked by Admiral Rahuma looks like hell on earth. To take this into account, it is the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The UN agency has warned about the conditions of people rescued or blocked by the Libyan Coast Guard: s overcrowding and inhumane conditions for more than 10 thousand migrants held in 20 centers.
others. It was only last week, from 21 to 28 June, that 2,425 people were landed in Libya in rescue and interception operations. With tips, as in the case of June 24, nearly a thousand in one day. The alarm comes from the latest weekly report from the UNHCR in Libya, present for badistance and first aid at the landing sites and in the centers where the migrants are subsequently transferred. But all this does not seem to scratch the certainties of the Admiral of Tripoli. "The help has already arrived, in part, and others will arrive in the future so that we can help people.Libo-Libyan relations will continue because we have a long-term project," M insisted. Rahuma pointing out that "between Libya and Italy" is a positive collaboration and it will always be like this: I will not allow anyone to ruin the relations between the two countries and the two peoples : our collaboration is more important than anything else, "he cut in. But the strength of the" Admiral "is not remotely comparable to that of the" general ", in the Khalifa century Haftar: In addition to blackmail, migrants can add this oil.
In Libya, crude oil production has dropped from 1 million barrels per day (bpd) to 315,000. This is due to the fact that Deposits of Hariga and Zuetina are almost complete for the block of exports of the strongman of Cyrenaica. r released the city of Derna. to the east of Libya, last great stronghold in the hands of Isis that the Haftar forces still did not control, and in recent days have reconquered the terminals of Sidra and Ras Lanouf, the general of the seventy-five arbitrarily badigned the direction of the Petroleum Crescent to the imaginary branch of Bengasi of the National Oil Corporation (NOC). Instead of the national and recognized Tripoli. As a result, tankers are stuck in ports without being able to charge, generating casualties on a daily basis. In response, the government of al-Serraj threatened actions – including military – if necessary. A threat "jumped". Because Haftar, unlike Serraj, has effective control of all its territory and the tribes that inhabit it. Some have recently complained about the agreement with the Tripoli government on future and threatened divisions of the country. However, thanks to the annexation of the Petroleum Crescent, the fort man from Cyrenaica will try to deal with the sale of oil, autonomously since Tripoli and despite the UN Security Council resolutions, that Haftar will use to strengthen relations with the tribes that really counts in Libya, like that of Gharyan, and the militias who control strategic areas, such as the Misurata militia, to strengthen its bargaining power at the negotiating table in Libya and l & # 39; abroad. This is not good news for Rome
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