By Vestnik Kavkaza
World oil prices remain unstable. Yesterday they rose due to events in Libya, where militants took the Mabruk oil field by storm. It is managed by the state oil company. According to RIA Novosti, at the end of last year the radical Islamist alliance Libyan Dawn, which established control over the capital Tripoli and the west of the country, attacked major Libyan ports, and after that oil terminals stopped working. Libyan Dawn has many times tried to capture control of the coastal area of Libya, which is called “the oil crescent.”
Muhammad Abdel Asis, a special envoy of the head of the Chamber of Deputies, says that Libya is going through a very difficult period, and there is a tendency that the state will be corrupted and unstable. “After the revolution of September 17th 2011, there were great hopes that the revolution will go in the right way. However, the parliament in Tripoli couldn’t achieve the goals set, due to extremist organizations operating in the country. The second reason for the instability is an absence of effective force structures.”
“In late 2011, when we hoped for wide-scale support for the Libyan people from the international community on their path to democracy. However, everything was canceled or given to the All-National Congress. The Congress, which had served its full term in 2014, tried to form a new parallel government. That’s why in July 2014 the legal government had to leave Tripoli and moved to the east of the country. At the moment it is situated in Tobruk.”
Under these conditions, Muhammad Abdel Asis sees three scenarios for Libya – civil war, the dissolution of the country, and an attempt to impose power on people by force.
“We addressed the international community and said that if you didn’t support the national government of Libya, if you didn’t provide it with aid to fight extremism and terrorism, the extremist and terrorist forces inspired by Islamic State’s experience in Syria and Iraq would try to destabilize the situation in Libya,” Muhammad Abdel Asis says. “We hope that Russia will support us in the Security Council and influence other states. It is a mistake to ignore the Libyan problem at this stage. It could lead to awful consequences not only for Libya, but also for the whole region.”
