La Berlin Conference on Libya ended after four hours with the commitment of foreign powers – Russia, Turkey, Egypt and the Emirates in the lead – a stop the interference and respect the truce. The final statement also provides a serious arms embargo, even by countries that have ignored such initiatives in the past. Finally, the agreement traces a political path that, when the weapons will be definitively silent, should lead to new elections for the establishment of a unified government. The problem is that the two Libyan leaders – the president Fayez Sarraj and the general Khalifa Haftar - they did not sign the text. In fact, they haven't even set foot in the same room.
“All states agree that we need a political solution and that there is no possibility for a military solution,” he said Angela Merkel at the end of the conference. "We have developed a very broad plan, everyone has collaborated very constructively, everyone agrees that we want to comply with the arms embargo with more controls than in the past". In Berlin "we have not solved all the problems” on Libya, but “we have created the spirit, the basis to be able to proceed on the UN path”.
In the final document there is no mention of it, but in the German capital there was also talk of thehypothesis of an international peacekeeping force to be sent to Libya under the aegis of the United Nations and which above all involves the European Union. The idea is supported by Al Serraj, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, and the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Germany and France, on the other hand, are for now more cautious about military hypotheses.
