The North African country has been wracked with instability since the 2011 civil war and NATO military intervention, which left the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi dead and the country divided into several warring factions.
Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of the western Libya-based Government of National Accord (GNA), has lambasted European leaders for their “hypocrisy” on the migrant question and called for more intensive cooperation.
“I see so much hypocrisy in European demands toward our country. You are asking us to hold over 600,000 migrants inside our borders, of which only 30,000 are in official refugee camps. But you yourselves, who are infinitely richer than us, refuse to accept even one,” the prime minister said, speaking to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published Thursday.
“I would like more cooperation,” al-Sarraj stressed, warning that Daesh (ISIS)* could seep into the ranks of would-be migrants and try to infiltrate Europe. “Our law enforcement agencies and intelligence services must work together if we want to avoid the worst,” the prime minister said.
The GNA head also praised Rome's recent efforts on the Libyan issue, and called the international conference on Libyan peace in Palermo earlier this week a “real success,” despite the fact that Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army of the Tobruk-led government, which now controls the…
