A letter from Saif Al Islam Gaddafi to Putin
What is Appear to be, another prove of Russia’s key role in restoring security and peace to the Middle East, Mohammed Al Qilushi, a member of Saif Al Islam Gaddafi’s political team, told Russian news agency Sputnik the content of Gaddafi’s letter to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Al Qilushi said that Saif Al Islam didn’t address the issue of his candidacy for the Libyan presidential elections in the future.
He pointed out that the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi spoke in his letter about his support for the road map concerning resolving the Libyan crisis, as well as on national reconciliation and allowing all Libyan political forces to participate. In the ongoing settlement process.
Al Qilushi said that Saif Al Islam didn’t raise the issue of his candidacy for the position of president of Libya in the letter because he believed it was premature to mention this issue at the moment, didn’t confirm or deny Gaddafi’s intention to run in the next election.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that Saif Al Islam Gaddafi and his supporters should be part of the process of a political settlement of the conflict in the country.
In early December, Qilushi told the same Russian agency that he had brought a letter from Gaddafi to Moscow and discussed with Russian officials the proposed road map on the political settlement of the Libyan crisis.
The Libyan parties had previously agreed to hold parliamentary elections throughout the country on the tenth of December, but the elections didn’t take place at the time agreed, and on 8 November UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salama, during a meeting of the Security Council on The situation in Libya, that parliamentary elections should be held in the country in the spring of 2019.
