London, (Libya Prospect) - The British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, said that the latest European Union meeting had discussed the possible role of the commander of the army of the House of Representatives (HoR), Khalifa Haftar, in the United Nations-backed government, amid fears of him exerting control over the government. This comes, while a source inside the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the minister, Sameh Shoukry, asked, in a meeting with the Emirati counterpart, Abdallah Bin Zayed, Emirati leaders to pressure Haftar to avoid any moves that could escalate new conflicts. Egyptian sources said that "Haftar opposed the Egyptian efforts to organize a meeting with the head of the Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Al-Sarraj in Cairo. The proposal was made by Russia, holding to a military approach". But Johnson said, as reported in The Times, that the Europeans "discussed the need to unify the eastern and western Libya as the Libyan Political Agreement says."
