We will fight any soldier tries to get into Libya’s territory: LNA

CAIRO, 2 January 2020: We will fight any soldier who tries to get into the Libyan territories; Colonel Khaled Al-Mahjoub, director of the Department of Moral Guidance of the Libyan National Army said Thursday in response to the Turkish parliament approval of send military forces to Libya.

He added in statements to Emirati website al-ain, that the Libyan General Command and the Libyan people would fight until their last soldier against any military intervention.

“The Libyan people, history and coming generations will never forget or forgive this crime. We are determine to continue our fighting against the terrorists, militia and to protect our country.” Mahjoub said.

Earlier on Thursday, Turkey’s Parliament voted for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s proposal to send Turkish troops to Libya, which is expected to deepen the Libyan crisis and mount tensions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which constitute the majority of the Parliament, supported the bill, while the opposition, the Peoples' Democratic Party and the Republican People's Party stood against it.

The bill, which aimed to give one-year mandate to Erdogan to send troops to Libya, says the objective of sending troops is to “protect” the Turkish national interests against security risks posed by “illegal armed groups in Libya," in indication to the Arab-supported Libyan national army led by Khalifa Haftar.

Egypt strongly condemned, the Turkish parliament approval of a memorandum of understanding presented by the Turkish president to send military forces to Libya.
The Foreign Ministry affirmed in a statement that the MoU, inked between Chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council (PC) Fayez al Sarraj and the Turkish government on security and military cooperation, is ‘null and void’.

The Ministry’s statement highlighted the blatant violation of the Turkish parliament’s move to all the international accords and UNSC resolutions, especially 1970 resolution, issued in 2011, which created Libya Sanctions Committee and banned any arms supply to and military cooperation with the war-torn North African country unless such actions were approved by the committee.