By the Gazette Editorial Board IN the span of just three days, Cairo has been the centre stage of three major activities of relevance to efforts aimed at putting the Libyan crisis on track for solution: President Sisi's talks yesterday with the visiting French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drien which covered, inter alia, the situation in Libya, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri's meeting in Cairo on Saturday with UN Special Envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, and today's scheduled ministerial-level meeting of the international Libya Quartet. In addition to their international significance, the three events imply solid indication of Egypt's active effort to bring the Libyan crisis to an end in the service of the interests of the Libyan people and also in the larger service of regional stability and international security. Needless to say, Egypt has over the past few years been advocating the achievement of such a peaceful solution to the crisis in Libya that would restore stability, security and peace there especially through terminating the political and security vacuum there and curtailing the terrorist threats that emanate from the continuation of lawlessness and the lack of a central authority. Egypt's active effort to realise the good of the Libyan people has been noticeably manifold, combining work with the Libyan parties to facilitate the achievement of a political solution, supporting the unification of the Libyan military and backing up regional and international moves to bring about the aspired political settlement in Libya. Underlying this genuine Egyptian effort is the awareness that Libya is not only a neighbouring Arab and African country but also one whose people have for long had human and social bonds with the Egyptian people – a fact that explains Egypt's interest in finding the brotherly people of Libya reviving their potential to lead a normal and fear-free life and to channel their energies in the direction of prosperity and socio-economic advancement. For the aspired, final solution to take hold and to gain durability and worthiness, it should be Libyan-made, as so Minister Shoukri emphasised during the meeting with UN Special Envoy Salame on Saturday. And it is exactly on the basis of this conviction that Egypt has been demonstrably keen on maintaining dialogue with all the parties to the Libyan crisis and promoting the unification of the Libyan military as so reflected in inviting and hosting the series of meetings in these two related directions so that a Libyan-made solution can be reached. The support Egypt is lending to UN envoy Salame's mission and Egypt's active participation in the work of the Libya Quartet are also instrumental in building the widest possible base of international backing to the realisation of a political solution to the Libyan crisis.
