The foreign minister of the Libyan government appointed by the Parliament, Hafed Gaddur, in a New Year’s message implicitly urged the outgoing premier Abdel Hamid Dbeibah and several countries to stop sabotaging Libya and negatively interfering in its affairs.
“To some personalities who have contributed to poisoning the political climate and instigating divisions”, wrote the head of diplomacy of Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha installed in Sirte and Benghazi on Facebook, “I say to them: hands off Libya”.
Gaddur, ex-ambassador in Rome, with veiled reference to the Dbeibah government based in Tripoli, accused these unspecified “personalities” of pursuing a “political madness by trying to create alternative bodies that will only contribute to the disarticulation and sabotage” of the country.
The minister, after being contacted by Italian news agency ANSA, confirmed that he was referring to Dbeibah who “just needs to leave power and resign for a thousand reasons”, argued Gaddur: “he derailed” the attempt to get to elections a year ago, ” his mandate has expired”, “he has been discouraged by parliament” and now “he is selling off Libya and the Libyans with the hope of staying in office longer”.
“My message and my invitation to the nations that are negatively interfering in Libya” is to “keep” the country out of their “political and military showdowns”, Gaddur wrote again without specifying.