Libyan Army Denies Reports About Setting Up Russian Military Base In Eastern Libya
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published February 19, 2018 | 01:09 PM
Libya's eastern-based army spokesman Ahmad Mismari on Sunday denied reports that General Khalifa Haftar requested setting up a Russian military base in eastern Libya, Xinhua report quoted the Libyan News Agency as saying
TRIPOLI,(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Feb, 2018 ) :Libya's eastern-based army spokesman Ahmad Mismari on Sunday denied reports that General Khalifa Haftar requested setting up a Russian military base in eastern Libya, Xinhua report quoted the Libyan News Agency as saying.
Mismari denied a statement made by the head of Russian contact group on Libya, Lev Dengov, published by an Egyptian newspaper regarding Haftar's request to set up a military base in eastern Libya.
The spokesman confirmed that there is a fallacy in the news. The Egyptian newspaper, Youm 7, on Sunday published an interview with Dengov, during which he said that Haftar has requested establishing a Russian military base in the east of the country.
Haftar has close ties with the Russian authorities and has made a number of official visits over the past few years to discuss Moscow's support for the Libyan army in the war on terrorism.
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