Egypt steps up efforts to calm Libya
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with head of the Libyan Presidency Council Mohammad Menfi in Cairo to discuss the future of the political process in Tripoli, amid Cairo’s renewed efforts to end the political chaos and divisions in the neighboring country.
CAIRO — Egypt has recently taken both overt and covert steps to settle differences and end the state of rivalry between Libya’s political forces, as it considers the situation in Libya along its western border to be linked to its own national security.
Egypt is coordinating with various international forces to ensure stability for Libya after more than a decade of chaos and bloody events following the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi on Oct. 20, 2011, and a popular revolution that toppled his 42-year rule.
To this day, Libya is struggling toward reaching a democratic path by holding presidential and parliamentary elections, which were scheduled to take place on Dec. 24, 2021, before they were indefinitely postponed.
In this context, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held a series of meetings in the past months to discuss the Libyan issue, with the aim to achieve the Libyans’ interest and preserve the unity of Libyan territories. The latest such meeting was held between Sisi and the head of Libya's Presidential Council Mohammad Younes Menfi at the Heliopolis Palace March 29.
