SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan regrets that Libya’s neighbours were not invited to Berlin conference

20/1/2020: Sudan Tribune - Sudan regrets that Libya’s neighbours were not invited to Berlin conference

Sudan Tribune reports that the Sudanese foreign ministry denounced the exclusion of Libya’s neighbours – Sudan, Chad, Tunisia and Niger – in a conference organised by Germany to discuss a negotiated solution for the Libyan crisis.

Berlin hosted a meeting that included the leaders of Algeria, the UK, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, the UAE, and the US, alongside Libya’s warring rivals, General Khalifa Haftar, of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, head of Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).

The Sudanese foreign ministry said that Libya’s neighbours have a fundamental role in reaching a peaceful solution to the crisis in Libya due to their interlinked security interests.

The foreign ministry also denounces the absence of a clear criteria for selecting the participants of the conference.