Libyan general Khalifa Haftar is in Rome where he met with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani this evening.
Haftar is in the capital for contacts with the Italian authorities and tomorrow morning he could also be received by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
This is what we learn from informed sources.
The general, a former officer in Colonel Gaddafi's army, has for some years become the "strong man" of Cyrenaica.
However, for some months now, thanks to an agreement with the prime minister of Tripoli, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, Haftar has once again become one of the decisive interlocutors in Libya, despite the fact that for months since 2019 he had tried unsuccessfully to attack the city of Tripoli , sparking months of civil war.
President Meloni had been in Tripoli on 28 January with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Interior, Tajani and Piantedosi, for an initial contact with the various Libyan authorities, but she had not managed to move to the Benghazi area where she its bases Haftar.
The general is very close to the positions of Egypt led by President Al Sisi.
Meeting the Egyptian leader in Cairo, Minister Tajani had asked to intervene on the Libyan general to facilitate a definitive pacification of Libya and to stop the flow of irregular migrants who also leave from the coasts of Cyrenaica.