The Russian Foreign Ministry has yet to comment on the east-based Libyan parliament’s call on the Egyptian military to intervene in the country to confront Turkey’s expansionist ambitions.
A Russian lawmaker did, however, welcome the move.
MP Vladimir Jabbarov said the Egyptian intervention could help restore the Libyan state, while also stressing the need to continue efforts to reach a political solution.
Of course, there is a need to hold political negotiations to settle the crisis, but if the Egyptian army were to help Libya restore its state, then that would also be a good thing, he remarked.
He said that the Egyptian military was able to restore the Egyptian state after the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood and now the country was developing successfully.
Russia understands Cairo’s concern over the unstable situation in Libya, he added.
Earlier this week, the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin had discussed Libya in a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also tackled Libya with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Russia’s Charge d’Affaires in Libya Jamshed Boltaev, meanwhile, denied that Moscow had delivered weapons to the North African country.
Russia was not violating the arms embargo against Libya, he stressed a week after resuming his duties at his country’s mission was reopened, but where it is temporarily being based in Tunisia.
