The traceability potential is considerable and some already exist. The day after the agreement was announced, the Tripoli-based defence minister said the agreement did not affect all of its military cooperation and training agreements with Turkey, on the grounds that the GNA was Libya`s legitimate government, bound by an agreement with another legitimate government in Ankara. [fn] On 25 October 2020, Defence Minister Salahedin Al Namroush wrote on his Twitter account (@Namroush): “We affirm the strengthening of cooperation with the Turkish ally and the continuation of the training programmes received and received by the government`s defence ministry member organisations of the national agreement, and the signing of the initial agreement (5-5) does not imply the agreement of military cooperation with the State of Turkey, an ally of the State government.” On 27 November 2019, Prime Minister Faiez Serraj and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a security cooperation agreement, which the Turkish Parliament subsequently ratified. The memorandum paved the way for Turkish military intervention in Libya, approved by Von Ankara MPs on 2 January 2020. Political and foreign officials in Tripoli say that Serraj has privately agreed to freeze the Turkish training programme and that they were aware that the ceasefire agreement involved the suspension of the military cooperation agreement with Ankara, but that he had not yet had to deal publicly with the issue until the end of October. Telephone interviews of the crisis group, Tripoli politicians, 23-27 October 2020. For Turkey`s intervention in Libya, see crisis group Europe Report No. 257, Turkey wading through the murky Libyan waters, 30 April 2020. Hide Footnote The Turkish authorities have repeated this position, while the Tripoli government`s military operations room, Volcano of Anger, has released a video of their recruits undergoing command training in Turkey.
[fn] See the burkan al-Ghadab Media Center tweet, @BurkanLY, 1:57 p.m., October 24, 2020. Hide Footnote Three days later, the pro-Tripoli Interior Minister signed an agreement with Qatar on counter-terrorism cooperation. [fn]”Memorandum of Understanding in the field of Security Cooperation between the Ministry of Interior of the Government of National Accord of the State of Libya and the Ministry of Interior of the State of Qatar” (original in Arabic), 26 October 2020. Copy the file with Crisis Group. Copies circulated on Libyan social media, including a tweet from Libya al-Ahrar TV, @libyaalahrartv, 8:21, 26 October 2020. Hide Footnote If quarrels broke out between the pages over the interpretation of the agreement, it could collapse, which could lead to a new fight. A war broke out around Tripoli between April 2019 and June 2020, but for the past nine years, a less intense conflict has been going on between different Libyan groups. The agreement also stipulates that all foreign military officers must leave the country immediately and freeze all training agreements with foreign states until the Libyan parties form a new unity government.
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