Dendias departed Tripoli without disembarking and flew to Benghazi, Libya’s rival center of power in the east, where he met with Eastern Libyan Commander Khalifa Haftar. “Today’s visit to Libya, as scheduled, started from Tripoli, where I was to meet with President Menfi. As a result, I cut short my visit to Tripoli and departed for Benghazi, where the schedule was followed, as planned,” Dendias told reporters Thursday. The former agreement, condemned internationally, is based on Turkish claims that islands, such as Crete, cannot have a continental shelf. Seeing that Turkey had an outsize influence in Tripoli, Greece appeared at one point to throw in its lot with Haftar, whose military campaign to seize Tripoli ultimately fell far short of that goal.

Source: Libya Today November 18, 2022 10:37 UTC