PARIS, France – Libya helps South Africa’s genocide case towards Israel within the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) and is against any normalization settlement with Israel, the overseas minister of the unrecognized jap Libyan authorities Abdulhadi al-Hweij, informed Maariv in an unique interview on Wednesday.
“We help the institution of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” Hweij mentioned in a uncommon interview with Israeli media. “We’re members of the Arab League, the Islamic Cooperation Council, and the African Union. We reject any bilateral settlement with Israel,” he added.
Hadji introduced his candidacy after the North African nation’s Excessive Nationwide Elections Fee introduced plans to carry native elections in 97 municipalities throughout the nation in 2024, noting that the Authorities of Nationwide Unity has but to supply the price range for this course of.
Libya-Israel secret assembly scandal
Hadji’s strict anti-Israel rhetoric comes following the scandal involving his counterpart from the acknowledged central authorities, Najla Mangoush, who was fired final yr after Israel’s then-foreign minister Eli Cohen leaked the information of a secret assembly held between the 2 in Rome.
The occasion, which had been billed as historic, created an uproar in Tripoli and a diplomatic debacle in Jerusalem. The problem was not the assembly itself, which was held in secret, however a choice by Cohen on Sunday night to publicize that they’d held a face-to-face dialog with a watch towards normalizing ties between the 2 nations, which don’t have any diplomatic relations.
Mangoush was compelled to flee to Turkey to flee public ire.
Talking to Maariv, Hadji said that the unrecognized authorities led by Libyan Area Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Omar Haftar and supported by Russia, harbors “good ties” with the US, additional claiming a warming of relations with Turkey, which engaged in fight with the Haftar authorities again in 2019.
