mo4ch:>Libya's Haftar ‘accepts people’s will’ to rule, declares UN-brokered unity government deal ‘thing of the past’ | Mo4ch News

Military leader Khalifa Haftar declared that his forces will take control of Libya, arguing the UN-brokered unity deal which created a rival government in Tripoli is dead and that “people’s will” gave him a mandate to rule.“The General Command of the Armed Forces accepts the will of the people despite the burden of that trust, multiplicity of obligations, and the magnitude of responsibilities before God, our people, and conscience and history,” Haftar said in a televised address on Monday, announcing that his Libyan National Army (LNA) will take control of the country.Haftar’s forces already control most of Libya, and have spent much of the last year driving on Tripoli to topple the Government of National Accord (GNA), created in 2015 under UN-mediated talks in the aftermath of the US-led NATO operation that ousted Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi and threw the country into years of civil war.Also on rt.comTripoli govt invites Pentagon to redeploy troops to NATO-ravaged Libya… to ‘deter R…