48 members of HoR continues to deny Russia interfered in Libya
Statement comes in response to Russian foreign minister’s remarks
The statement came in response to comments by Sergey Lavrov during a press conference Saturday in New York in which he noted that “the presence of foreign forces in eastern Libya was made at the request of the Libyan House of Representatives.”
The deputies said in the statement that they “categorically deny what was said in his statements and that we did not ask, as MPs, [for] the intervention of the Russians, nor did we ask for the assistance of any foreign forces, neither directly nor indirectly.”
“We did not discuss this under the dome of Parliament, and we did not vote on it,” the statement added.
The deputies demanded “all foreign forces to leave Libyan territory immediately and unconditionally,” according to the statement.
The official number of deputies in parliament is 200, but some of them died or resigned, while around 130 deputies attend the sessions.
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