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Egypt Independent
“Egypt’s parliament approved deploying the armed forces on Monday, to combat militias outside the western borders”, according to House of Representatives Speaker Ali Abdel-Aal.
Al-Sayyed al-Sherif, Undersecretary of the House of Representatives, said “all MPs support the Egyptian government military intervention in Libya with no opposition to any decisions made in this regard”.
The decision allows Egypt to intervene if an imminent threat to the security of the two countries occurs.
The parliament announced, it “welcomes the statement made by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi regarding military intervention in Libya and called for concerted efforts between the two countries to ensure the defeat of invading occupiers and to preserve National security and stability in the region”.
Egypt is working towards a ceasefire at Libya’s eastern and western borders. It is preparing to launch comprehensive political settlement negotiations under the auspices of the UN. Cairo seeks to implement the resolutions of the Berlin Conference and the recently announced ‘Cairo Declaration’, backed by Khalifa Haftar and Libya’s parliamentary speaker Aguila Saleh.
Sisi called on the Egyptian army “to raise level of military readiness to carry out operations in Egypt and Libya”.
Earlier in July, the Libyan parliament granted the Egyptian armed forces the right to intervene in the country’s ongoing conflict to protect Libyan and Egyptian National security.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm.
