Macron’s Plan to End the Libyan Conflict Only Made Things Worse
- Libya will be a key issue at weekend Munich security meeting
- Russia, Turkey have emerged as the key players in Libya
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To see the limits of French President Emmanuel Macron’s go-it-alone forays into foreign policy look no further than the Libyan conflict.
Macron’s attempt to fix North Africa’s biggest crisis by holding a peace summit outside Paris in 2017, hosting Fayez al-Sarraj, Libya’s United Nations-backed prime minister and his rival General Khalifa Haftar, ended with promises of a cease-fire and elections. Macron tweeted a video of himself shaking hands with both men, captioned: “Libyan people deserve this peace. We owe it to them.”