Arab leaders support Libya’s legitimate institutions, efforts for national reconciliation
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – The 30th Summit of the League of Arab States on Sunday resolved to support Libya’s legitimate institutions, and many other moves to end their crisis through national reconciliation, in accordance with the Libyan political deal in Skhirat.
Officials of the African Union and the United-Nations also attended the meeting at which these resolutions were made.
In the final communiqué, called ‘’Tunis Declaration’’, adopted on Sunday the Arab leaders reaffirmed their support to ‘’the Libyan government in their efforts to eradicate the terrorist rings based in Libya and neighbours’’.
‘’We insist on the importance to back the Libyan legitimate institutions and we support the Quartet dialogue initiated by the Arab League with the European Union, the African Union, and the United Nations.
"We also back the efforts made to reach a deal that should end the crisis through national reconciliation, in accordance with the deal signed in the Moroccan city of Skhirat, in addition to preserving Libya’s territorial integrity and the cohesion of its community fabric," said the declaration.
Arab leaders therefore resolved to devote efforts needed to eliminate the terrorist groups and eradicate terrorists in all military and security domains, and at the intellectual confrontation level.
They are also committed to carrying on the fighting against terrorism and eliminating its causes, in addition to defeating the persons behind terrorist enterprises, in the Middle-East, Africa and abroad particularly.
‘’We insisted on our commitment to warn terrorists who exploit the information and the social communication means in the recruitment, publicity and diffusion of extremism ideology and hatred, which misrepresents the image of Islam’’, Arab leaders said in their declaration.
They strongly condemned the attempts to establish the link between terrorism and Islam, calling the representatives of the international community and the United Nations to venture a unified definition of terrorism, terrorism which has neither identity nor nation for itself.
The document urged governments of all countries of the world to assume their responsibilities to fight against this dangerous phenomenon.
The Libyan dossier dominated the proceedings of the 30th Arab League summit through several meetings devoted to talks on the efforts to reach peace and stability in that country.
On Saturday, the Quartet - the African Union, the Arab League, the United Nations and the European Union - held a meeting in the presence of the UN Secretary General, which underlined the support to the plan of the UN envoy in Libya.
On Friday, the foreign affairs ministers of Libya’s neighbours, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria, met on the sidelines of the Summit, in the presence of the Libyan minister of foreign affairs and the UN envoy.
Previously, Arab ministers of foreign affairs examined the Libyan dossier, reaffirming their support to the action plan of the UN envoy.
The UN envoy in Libya, Ghassan Salamé, announced the holding of the national inclusive conference for 14-16 April in the Libyan southwestern city of Ghadames, with 120 and 150 Libyan personalities attending.
The national inclusive conference, main point of Mr Salamé’s action plan is meant to find consensus among Libyans on the electoral agenda to end the political transition.
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