UN Led Peace Summit Pushes Turkey To Retreat From Syria
The Peace Summit in Berlin is now seeing headway with the UN deciding to keep an arms embargo in Libya. Organised by the United Nations, leaders from Russia, France, Germany and the likes assembled in Berlin to pledge an end to all foreign involvement in the conflict in Libya. It was interesting to see Turkish presence at the summit, the main protagonist currently at Tripoli who has stationed its military personnel to support the UN recognized government in Tripoli. Macron has expressed deep concerns over this kind of ‘foreign’ involvement both in Syria and Libya. The UN has stated that the main concern currently is to curb the interference of foreign powers who wield influence in the region. It is imperative they stop supplying weapons, troops or finance — either to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli or the rival Libya National Army (LNA) led by eastern military strongman Khalifa Haftar. The direct indication has been made to Erdogan’s recent penetr...