Foreign diplomats have remained amazed: "But you do not have a clue; you will cause you a new civil war! '

AUTHOR: Damjan Raknić
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POSTED: 10/04/2017. at 15:02

To Sebastian Gorki, during the presentation of that idea to a high-ranking European diplomat, was said that this decision was 'worst possible' idea.

Senior White House official in charge of foreign policy advocated a plan to divide Libya and on one occasion during a meeting with high-ranking European diplomat on napkin he drew how the land would look like if it was divided into three parts, writes The Guardian.

Sebastian Gorka, lower Assistant to US President Donald Trump who had come under fire because of the connection with the Hungarian far right groups, presented the idea of ​​sharing in the weeks leading up to the inauguration of the US president, according to an official who is familiar with this situation. The European diplomat idea called 'the worst possible solution "for Libya.

Gorka wants to be named special envoy of the White House for Libya, in the White House, which has so far spent very little time thinking about that country and that has yet to decide whether to make such work place open.

Since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, in Libya for dominance are fighting two governments - one based in Tripoli, that with the support of the UN is led by Fayez al-Sarraj, while the other is based in Tobruk and is supported by parts of the Egyptian and Russian governments, and is lead by Khalifa Hfthar, explicit anti-Islamist and a former general of Gaddafi's army. Haftar presents itself as an opponent of Islamism and the Muslim Brotherhood, and this is why he is an attractive option to certain members Trumps foreign policy team.

Gorka is committed to policies aimed at defeating 'radical Islam' and see the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group that wants to infiltrate the United States. As a former Breitbarts editor, he is close the Steve Bannon, Trump chief strategist.

Gorka with his views on the future of Libya alarmed foreign diplomats. The map he drew on a napkin during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations divided Libya into three parts - the old Ottoman provinces Kirenaiku in the east, Tripolitania in the northwest and Fezzan in the southwest.

'This is something like a test of knowledge about Libya. If the only thing you know is that it was divided into three parts, then you do not know anything about the situation in Libya, "said Mattia Toaldo, an expert on Libya at the European Council on Foreign Affairs.

Gorki will for place of special envoy compete with Pete Hoektra, a former congressman and a lobbyist and Phillip Escaravage, intelligence officer who more than ten years worked on the Libyan issue. According to The Guardian, Escaravage is considered the favorite for the nomination for the special envoy.

While separatists who support the sharing claim that the stable country can be build up in the east of Libya, most experts agree that such a move would set off a new civil war since for interested parties it would be difficult to agreed on border limits.

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