The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, announced yesterday that “at the end of this week” he will travel to Libya to attend the international conference on the stabilisation of that country.
Albares assured that “Spain will be increasingly committed to Libya” because “it is a very important Mediterranean country, where many of the crises affecting the Mediterranean, the Maghreb and the Sahel converge”, among which he cited jihadist terrorism and irregular immigration.
The Foreign minister took part in a breakfast meeting in Luxembourg, together with his EU colleagues, with the Libyan minister for Foreign Affairs, Najla Mangoush. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, also took part, saying that the EU-27 are “ready to accompany Libya on its path towards the elections” scheduled for 24 December.
During the meeting with Mangoush, Borrell also conveyed the EU’s concern about “the unacceptable situation of the migrant detention centres” in Libya.
At the 76th General Assembly of the UN, the head of the Libyan Presidency Council, Younes Menfi, announced the convening of the international conference to seek support for the stabilisation of the country.
Libya has been a failed state, a victim of chaos and civil war since 2011, when NATO contributed to the triumph of the various rebel groups over the dictatorship of Muammar al-Gaddafi.
