The UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) will not allow any "mercenaries and criminal gangs" to capture the country's oilfields and ports and use its natural resources for blackmail purposes, GNA Deputy Defense Minister Col. Saleh Al-Namroush said on Tuesday

Egypt will not contribute to the separation of Libya and understands its territorial integrity, Ahmed Huma, the second deputy speaker of the Tobruk-based parliament, told Sputnik in an interview, commenting on Cairo's announcement about readiness to intervene in the neighboring conflict

The Libyan National Army (LNA) has started to patrol oilfields and ports in eastern Libya in a bid to protect the so-called oil crescent area from any attacks that could be launched by armed groups operating in the country, Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) spokesman Ibrahim al-Faidi told Sputnik

The spokesman for the Libyan National Army (LNA), which backs Libya's Tobruk-based parliament, Ahmed Mismari, believes that Qatar and Turkey should not have been invited to the recent Palermo conference on Libyan settlement since they had nothing to do with the issue and only sought to "defend the interests of terrorists" that they support in the country.