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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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UNIFIL Vows to Stay in Lebanon Despite Several 'Deliberate' Israeli Attacks

UNIFIL Vows to Stay in Lebanon Despite Several 'Deliberate' Israeli Attacks
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UNIFIL Vows to Stay in Lebanon Despite Several 'Deliberate' Israeli Attacks

UNIFIL Vows to Stay in Lebanon Despite Several 'Deliberate' Israeli Attacks

A UNIFIL peacekeeping mission spokesperson on Friday denounced several direct, deliberate attacks by Israeli forces in recent days and said it had found evidence of the possible use of white phosphorous near one of its bases.
"We need to stay, they asked us to move," Reuters quoted UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti as saying by video link from Beirut.
"The devastation and destruction of many villages along the Blue Line, and even beyond, is shocking," he said, referring to a UN-mapped line separating Lebanon from Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Asked about the downing of a drone near its ship off the Lebanese coast on Thursday, he said: "The drone was coming from the south but circling around the ship and getting very, very close, a few meters away from the ship."
According to Tenenti, an investigation several months ago had detected "a trace of the possible use of white phosphorous" by the Israeli army close to a UNIFIL base. He added that the UN Security Council was aware of the case.
White phosphorus munitions are not banned as a chemical weapon and their use - usually to make smoke screens, mark targets or burn buildings - by the Israeli military is documented.
However, since they can cause serious burns and start fires, international conventions prohibit their use against military targets located among civilians.