AL-Saddiq Khalifa Haftar, appointed by his father as head of the High Commission for National Reconciliation, said that the disappearance of MP Ibrahim Al-Dressi amounts to an abduction and that “such incidents can happen in any other country.”
In an interview with the BBC, Haftar acknowledged a degree of security failure, as he put it, but rejected blaming his family for Al-Dressi's case, saying: “This act should not be attributed to Khalifa Haftar or his sons. Frankly, that would be a great injustice.”
He clarified that the commission he leads is not a replacement for the Presidential Council’s own reconciliation commission, but noted that the council has become preoccupied with other matters since assuming responsibility for national reconciliation. “All that’s happening is a budget being spent in the name of reconciliation with no results on the ground,” he said.
Al-Saddiq also expressed regret over the situation in Tripoli and the western region under the control of the Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, renewing his call for all Libyan regions to join their project aimed at establishing what he described as a “real state.”
