Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has established diplomatic ties with the government lead by Khalifa Haftar, the general who commands the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Libya.
On Tuesday, Haftar’s Foreign Minister Abdul-Hadi Al-Hawaij visited Damascus to sign a memorandum of understanding with his Syrian counterpart, Walid al Muallim, for the reopening of their diplomatic offices.
The opening of the Libyan embassy in Syria occurs one day after the United Nations envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salame, resigned his post after more than two years of trying to mediate between the parties to the conflict.
Last week, the UN representative warned that the truce between the Libyan National Army and the forces of the Tripoli-based government was about to break.
“None of the three ways of negotiations (political, military and financial) can move forward positively while the cannons continue to operate, so we ask that the truce of January 12 be respected,” Salame said.
Source: Telesurenglish
