The u. S. Accuses russia of sending fighter jets to libya moscow says it wants a cease fire at its ally. Has suffered losses after Turkish Military interventions one of the options for stabilizing libya creasing complex war this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Russia is one of the main players in the war in libya it supports warlord Khalifa Haftar who wants to take the capital tripoli from the un recognized government but the campaign has suffered a series of setbacks officials in tripoli said russian transport planes moved out hundreds of mercenaries whove been fighting with have task forces in southern tripoli russia is now calling for an immediate cease fire foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told an ally of our but he backs what he calls a constructive dialogue involving all libyan Political Forces to end the conflict but at the same time russia is accused of sending warplanes to libya the u. S. Military says these photos show russian fighter jets arriving recently via syria to support half task forces it says the planes were repainted to conceal their origin a russian m. P. Rejected the allegation as fake seems russia isnt the only country involved in the wall the un recognized government of National Accord based in the capital tripoli has the backing of italy catarrh and turkey recent Turkish Military intervention has helped its forces push have tar back from southern tripoli and other parts of the northwest. The warlord launched an offensive to take the capital more than a year ago how is backed by rival administration into broke in the east the u. N. Says 1200 russian mercenaries would have cloyd to help after his forces egypt the United Arab Emirates and france also provide support. Lets bring in our guests in touch in in the u. S. State of new jersey we have jason pak a founder of the consultancy Libya Analysis as well see and in vienna wolfgang posti a security and policy analyst and austrias former defense attash 8 to libya and in tripoli by phone sami a trash a lawyer and head of the Political Office of the Libyan National assembly february 17th revolution welcome to you all jason 1st of all Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says he wants a cease fire while we hear that the russians have sent 14 disguised fighter jets to libya whats going on well thats not as paradoxical as it may seem one always wants to negotiate from a position of strength rather than one of weakness the russians are on the back foot as are their clients the eleanor and therefore the russians and the emirates for the 1st time in a long time are talking about 6 fires because when youre losing and the momentum is against you its a very convenient time to be calling for a cease fire of course they knew that those fighter jets would be discovered they might not have known that afrikan would call them out as vociferously as they have but the russians still have a lot of leverage in the conflict and they have been put on the back foot in the aerial war but theyre not lost and it seems that they have a deal with their turkish opponents that. By withdrawing mercenaries from beni walid to drill for up those mercenaries will now not be attacked and therefore if they were drawn their air assets from places in the west which they did such as what he up to draw from it seems like there wont be attack there and now we await the next phase in the battle for tomorrow not as well as negotiations on a global scale about what will come next for libya ok wolf is that what it is the russians putting a gun on the table but really everybody wants a cease fire well actually if i the russians its if 2 of the surf the Strategic Interests in libya this means they intend by all means to make maintain a full told at least in Eastern Libya to dissent for the time being they want to prevent the end in a from getting defeated in tripoli tamia we see how far they got they will get maybe maybe support if they recently arrived at the chance also be offensive of the Libyan National army again to with the pretty pena but i doubt that a couple of fight the chits is enough to change that i think and to allow the end in 8 with back again to with 3 pretty it seems to be more like it that this fight the chits if the number remains limited have to propose to buy just some time for the Libyan National army to get closer to some kind of negotiated settlement it could also well be that the purpose of this fight the chance is to peta the turks and their operational cannell from attacking towards Eastern Libya we see i guess the next days and weeks and show ok sami turkey the u. A. E. Have called for a ceasefire all geria the e. U. Is calling for a ceasefire are we going to get a cease fire. I would like to start with them to mention. d cigars. d behind the syrians including france and russia. Busy busy to get them and they really must be doing the game and then you friends to bring over more busy than a community. Done that for them since fall for the 2019 busy remains oso busy busy active but without. d observing given. Of course all that i mean most of them to be in order to believe that the end or that of the Russian Movement in the future they have been deceived by this on. Both fronts and that i shall in spite of this vote to them to mention that i do human giant on to some books which i was in 92 thats a seat then for the game to convince me and now the Intervention Team did if youre obviously to everyone to mention eugenie and so far left i mean in the event of a through evolution that you reject in both goals in the newsgroups by our own. The best is finished or this minute city because we through this go discuss stuff to declare themselves and good no d ordinary would be. Very big. A democracy and to serve in the state therefore im not going to read it and it goes through Spy Organization or on. The job ok jason not much optimism not much likelihood of a ceasefire coming from tripoli but all the Major Players seem to be asking for want one going to be full stall them somehow well sammy is right weve entered a new stage if you look at the libya conflict from 2011 to now as having 5 stages with just entered the tests. The 1st stage is the 20th level libyan uprising and those were uprisings not a civil war because the mass of the population oppose khadafi and only about 20 percent of his core tribal supporters like the magog of the far and some of the war follow up and his family supported him then we had some good years in 20122013 the oil price was high and it was inability to rebuild and then we had the 1st libyan civil war and that was starting in the summer of 2014 it was fought over the tripoli airport and the former revolutionaries fell out amongst themselves so is a town in misrata which fought together against gadhafi fell out and the intro our election was contested with the parliament fleeing to the east that were quieted down but it led to the treaty that sammy was mentioning the surat agreement of 17 december 25th tina and rather than resolving matters that complicated matters because it introduced a 3rd government the g. S. A. And that government was not really produced inside libya and the International Actors who said that they supported it actually supported different sides and began a proxy dynamic this then led to the 4th phase which is the 2nd war a post office succession or the war for tripoli that began on april 4th 2019 and former. Enemies and allies switch sides so this in turn is a misrata is who fought together against gadhafi some of them worked together to oppose huffed arson attack on tripoli in this new civil war that 2nd civil war has now ended with the fall of what he airbase and were entering a 5th phase will that phase be a ceasefire a negotiated settlement i dont think so i agree with sami that this ceasefire talk is posturing force is still going to have to play out out there is an opportunity for the turks will want they are the victors of the 2nd libyan civil war if the troops wanted to be moderate and not push their advantage they could be conveners but everything about their previous behavior earlier ones skills show that there are unlikely to do that and theyre going to try to exact a victory dividend and in so doing the conflict will continue into this new and 5th uncertain phase ok wolf. Do you think we are relying on turkey to push for the idea of a cease fire will turkey go for that although they want to exact more before they go for the. Well i would say its quite unlikely that turkey will push for a cease fire right now we need to keep in mind what up to turkeys Strategic Interests in libya and one of the key interests is certainly to maintain and to continue turkish Libyan Maritime agreement if there would be a ceasefire right now if there would be a cease fire off the delany is defeated can be pretty tainio it could easily happen that the eastern part of libya would split off if the eastern part of leave it would split off deck you could forget the politics maritime agreement because theyre a complement ever be in benghazi they would certainly not and also sign any kind of agreements to the favor of turkey so for turkey it is crucial ate up to maintain one libyan state dominate the by government favor of turkey or to continue to with steve just to continue towards the east not only to the sea at the basine but also to big ozzy and this could easily bring them in conflict with a chip. Something is the price that is exacting from the tripoli government was it worth giving access to these mediterranean possible gas deposits in return for the support hes giving it. To get extended yes because as we know or do you. Remain on board. Most of that in the west reduce. Konami can be measured time and distance graham said and i mean the connection to all of the benefits of that to be the truth was signed. But nevertheless i think it was just to me have committed to the brits action to them and to get it to my government at a good night when the National Media progressed i think as close as it have to general visiting with us i mean. The whole country from the military jump to their mission and this we finish this concept of our body as if i dont think we can really. Give any Democratic State but that is something believe me i have to burn down to the audience and to my servant have to remind ourselves that we should not be built when the people you in spite of the. Mentor socalled bottom of the governments got a. d mysterious generac thats really amazing that misstatement over the fight. Made this call born into the english industry challenge. The growth so out of the chair and im talking on behalf of. Somebody of it to be loosened wants to reduce separate that we have determined under the new. Really understood the fact that without eliminated and clearly of this military regime we would never be. On 2011 revolution of. Ok so this is really the main boim we have to consider in spite of the political stance of the governments jason if took a strategic goals to exploit potential gas reserves in the mediterranean basin and to get contracts to rebuild libya for turkish Construction Companies it needs stability to achieve those goals doesnt its not going to get much further without stability. That would be a rational way of looking at it and i would hope that that would prevail in omkara but as we know the road to peace in libya does go through on corruption and has shown itself since out of turk to be very good at the military right out of turk was a military man and the military dominated the turkish state for its 1st 80 years after the Ottoman Empire early one has risen to power and he has a problem with the military which is ataturk yes but he has carved out a patch for them and its a nato country and they have access to the best technology and theyve shown to good effect that theyre able to use that technology and skills and to win in libya what bird on has not shown that he has the ability to do is to negotiate he has not been a very good negotiator hes a rogue internationally hes ostracized from europe he hasnt honored some of the migrant deals and frankly i would love to see that he could pivot and extract a peace dividend but it seems like theyre going for a victory dividend do they need stability as you mentioned maybe not they want the g. N. A. T. To give them back their Construction Contracts and back payments but us whats going smartly pointed out they want to have a victory over all of that be a because its only in the eastern waters that they can extract that gas dividend the only power that can really bring together all of the sides and factions is america. Unfortunately america has a bipolar policy towards libya and were not going to see a new policy until the election in november and thats something id like to talk more about but you know we just have to hold our breath because theres no will in either europe or america right now to really do the serious heavy lifting and humans work to convene the International Community so until that point the turks and the russians are what we have in terms of actually trying to make it work and wolfgang what is russias strategic interest in libya we know europeans are particularly concerned about russian interests in libya why its but as i understand that well not only part russians interests its also other affair as well as use you forgot to russia russia has in particular geoStrategic Interests they forgot to libya. Would like to say that probably Eastern Libya will be sufficient to achieve this day egypt will establish a military base to eager to establish a naval base but they have craft kariya in Eastern Libya there is the help of pop rock which could very very well fit into these intentions they are eager to use libya apollo protection and play expanding the influence the with the Sahara States yet eager to get their share as turkey on the reconstruction of libya be eager to get put into the door before it got too many other Major Projects in the end actually at the end of the cut off a time like turkey there are many conflicts with Russian Companies and russian would be to continue with these contracts however it would be easier for russia to leave only be for the eastern part of libya then for turkey picks east only if the western part of libya. When we handle about these competing interests from outside forces in libya when are we ever going to arrive at the stage where people like you in the west are going to get together with people libyans in the east and work out a future for your country together it doesnt seem a lot thoughts on the horizon does it. Finally i mean really. d between the Libyan Forces way that is actually. Used the civil war completely. Description according to my understanding from that end if you get in libya every time ever we are ready to sit with people who believe in their separate states and them across the constitution then they will fill but we cannot read. A story and accept any agreement which even to the contrary d the values that are set forth d in there because i gave them signed on as we said 15 december and. This is have 52 words which stablish the states and the National Community have agreed with. Them and we are ready to go off on that but the 3 im. Going to mention and the other good. Job that and used it is that i am up to the square leg and this is going to be made above the dimension i couldnt make it up the gold money anymore because they did for the one really hoping that she would be rising to the power and really know why and start on the institutions start to vote in the i mean 2000 maybe 3 men 14 by commuting the convention of course the dust and the construction im. Going to organize in should which have being elected. Every stage of the revolution so now were going to miss your community. Good the very night the nation. Voted. And d invited to. Watch you mentioned to all of the democratic rules which all agreed to include the mission i committed to so i wondered about this look at the Russian Community watch and. Watch and i was watching the. Results is to going to do it all and guide the value of vision you know d have been. Felt by. So far no and thats the tension as i said of the libyan people that ive been briefed and that is no no because that have come for them beyond any doubt but then the. d departed by me and through the bush years in fact with d which we understood that it clearly also then put National Community have understood that. Jason. African u. S. African and while it was unusual for it to state so clearly that he suspected these jets were coming from russia can we take some hint from the u. S. That they are paying attention to whats happening in libya or is it as you suspect the not really going to get involved in an Election Year well to 1st address samis point there yes it would be lovely to have a libyan libyan Peace Process and the only solution is a libyan libyan wanted cant be imposed from outside but unfortunately family show the 0 sum thinking that prevails in libya he calls his opponents a military junta without. Pointing out that the easterners have legitimate grievances about the distribution of wealth and power from they cannot be period institutions so thats a shame and its going to require much more dialogue and openness than he points out now to pivot to the very good question that you mentioned that african statement calling out the russian jets has to do with the bipolarity of american policy and thats that on the one hand we have Civil Servants and experts and professionals and on the other we have team trump and appointees and this is something that all americans are familiar with these are the the Coronavirus Response the experts and the Health Officials say hey we cant open up and please wear a mask and weve got to flatten the curve and then tim trump and the Vice President says were going to reopen by memorial day that it will be behind us the president appears in public without a mask and says everything is fine we need to reopen the economy so in the libya case this bipolarity is that. Trump called her to juan and asked for a ceasefire and pompei a last week called so rajan said oh we dont want any foreign interference you know dont push the advantage dont have the turks comment so team trump and the appointees do the bidding of the u. A. E. And weve seen that before when trump called tough hard april of last year where as the experts and the professionals of the Civil Servants they are motivated by the traditional American Foreign policy aims of deterring russia or wolfgang no coherent american response and the u. A. E. You also gives the view from europe we have france on different sides of the italians come the the e. U. Is also seeming powerless to try and bring calm to libya well currently the European Union can do next to nothing about the situation in libya the reason is easy currently thats a military conflict turkey is using the military as tool of strategy to use the military to distract the cheap to counterbalance the Libyan National army now turkey spits using a success in libya if the military tool of strategy whats in the European Union to show the bump. That Libyan National army the europeans through not in the future in a boy is such that simply not the way the European Union backs the European Union but could get again to became if there is an opportunity if there is separate i still make that they could again try to broker a ceasefire you mention that different european interests this is understandable if you look just to italy and to france italy has the key has key economic interests before it got to libya they tell you an economic interests mostly focus them best them libya ok italy has key security interests also focus to western libya in particular to make ration for france its different for them what counts is counterterrorism count that there isnt which is terrorism which is a particular threat that the french might. Strategic interests in the central sahara region and therefore the french are also key leaning towards the Libyan National army if you want to fight terrorism safe havens in southern libya the only one choice you have to cooperate leave is the Libyan National army you may like it or not all right we are unfortunately out of time but thanks to jason pack to wolfgang puts thai in tripoli to sami our trash and thank you to are watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we are apt a. J. Inside story and i am up to 0 burnet for me burnet smith and the entire team here in doha but. I. A tsunami of mud to bury 16 indonesians villages submerging the homes and livelihoods of 60000 people. Years later local inhabitants is still fighting for justice from the Fracking Company they play. 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