The Libyan High Council of State and the Parliament of Tobruk have made a deal after five days of holding talks in Bouznika, Morocco.
In a joint statement on Thursday, the two parties announced that they reached a comprehensive agreement on the criteria, mechanisms, and objectives for “assuming positions of sovereignty.”
Both parties vowed to continue the dialogue launched in Morocco and to resume these meetings during the last week of September to complete the necessary measures to ensure the enforcement and activation of this agreement, said the final joint statement.
The statement also clarified that the agreement was made out of a realization that the situation in Libya has become very dangerous and that national unity and sovereignty have come under threat, as a result of the negative foreign interference.
The High Council of State and the Parliament of Tobruk met in Morocco with the aim of overcoming their differences, aware of the “serious repercussions” of Libya’s political and institutional division. Such a division has created poor living conditions for the people of Libya and weakened Libyans’ confidence in the country’s legislative, executive, and monitoring institutions.
Both parties also stressed that these meetings took place in application of Article 15 of the Libyan political agreement reached in Skhirat and in confirmation of the conclusions of the Berlin conference, which both support a political solution to the Libyan crisis. The Bouznika dialogue was also in line with the relevant Security Council resolutions.
The two parties affirmed that their meetings in Bouznika took place in “a friendly and fraternal atmosphere marked by understanding and consensus,” adding that both sides are aware that the current situation in the country, at different levels, is extremely dangerous.
The two parties had earlier expressed their gratitude to Morocco for facilitating the talks that focused on fostering the ceasefire decreed on August 20, and means of moving forward, free of harmful foreign meddling, to put an end to institutional divisions.
