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Sarraj, Erdogan Stress Need for Peaceful Resolution of Libyan Crisis

Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
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Sarraj, Erdogan Stress Need for Peaceful Resolution of Libyan Crisis

Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)

Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, held talks in Istanbul on Saturday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The two officials stressed the need to resolve the Libyan crisis peacefully and through the United Nations and Berlin conference outcomes.

A statement from the GNA Presidential Council said Sarraj and Erdogan discussed the implementation of the memoranda of understanding signed between the two sides last year.

The agreements tackled military cooperation and the demarcation of maritime borders in the Mediterranean.

They also tackled economic cooperation, investment, efforts to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic and the return of Turkish companies to Libya.

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Lebanon PM Issues Rare Rebuke to Iran over 'Interference'

This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)
This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)
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Lebanon PM Issues Rare Rebuke to Iran over 'Interference'

This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)
This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister on Friday made a rare rebuke to Iran and said Tehran's envoy should be summoned over reported comments by a top Iranian official that it would be ready to help "negotiate" to implement a UN resolution on Lebanon.

Criticism of Iran by top Lebanese officials is unusual, particularly given Tehran's sponsorship of Hezbollah, which is currently locked in battles against Israeli troops along Lebanon's southern border.

In an interview published in France's Le Figaro on Thursday, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf was quoted as saying his country would be ready to "negotiate" with France to implement United Nations Resolution 1701.

That resolution, which ended the last round of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.

Lebanese PM Najib Mikati said on Friday that he was "surprised" by the comments, calling them "a blatant interference in Lebanese affairs and an attempt to establish a rejected guardianship over Lebanon.”

Mikati said such a negotiation was the prerogative of the Lebanese state, and asked Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib to summon the Chargé d'Affaires of the Iranian embassy in Beirut over Ghalibaf's comments.