NATO secretary general: No plans to deploy forces in Libya

NATO does not have plans to deploy combat forces in Libya, only to help Libyan efforts to spread stability and fight Daesh, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

“I am in direct contact with the Libyan national unity government and was recently in contact with its premier, Fayez Al-Sarraj,” Algeria’s al- Fajr newspaper reported Stoltenberg as saying.

“Dialogue continues with the new unity government, and we were informed about its interest to obtain help from the alliance, and we do not think about combat troops, but to provide support to the defence ministry and the security services and command centers,” he explained.

The paper said Stoltenberg has identified two conditions for a NATO ground intervention in Libya, to receive an official request from Libya and to include the bloc’s move within what he described as an “international collective effort to support Libya”.