Libya and Qatar, whose ties have strengthened in recent times, signed a security cooperation agreement in Doha on Monday (October 26th), the content of which was not disclosed, the official news agency of the Qatar QNA.
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Qatar and its ally, Turkey, support the Libyan Government of National Unity (GNA), recognized by the UN and based in Tripoli, against the forces of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a strongman of eastern Libya, in this country plunged into chaos.
The latter immediately condemned the agreement signed in Doha in the presence of the Minister of the Interior of the GNA Fathi Bashagha and his counterpart in Qatar Sheikh Khaled ben Khalifa ben Abdel Aziz Al-Thani.
"
The Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior and their excellencies the Libyan Ministers of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior attended the signing of a memorandum of understanding in the sector of security cooperation between the two countries
", QNA said.
The agreement aims to "
improve cooperation in the security sector
," the agency added.
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This signing comes three days after the UN announced in Geneva of a “
permanent
”
ceasefire
between the two rival camps in Libya.
The agreement is supposed to put this country - plunged into chaos since the fall of the regime of Muammar Gaddafi killed in 2011 during a popular revolt - on the path to a political solution.
But its implementation promises to be complex given the myriad of armed groups and foreign support for rival parties.
