Libya Summons U.S. Envoy Over Trump's "Terror-Infested" Remark: Rival Governments Condemn It as Trump Says U.S. Is Committed to Ties
TRIPOLI — Libya's foreign ministry summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires on Sunday to protest remarks by President Donald Trump at a rally in Perry, Georgia, in which he called Libya "terror-infested." The ministry described the remarks as "offensive."
Reuters quoted Trump as saying at the rally that Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff had "personally sponsored a bill to bring armies of migrants from terror-infested countries like Libya, Yemen, Haiti, Somalia." Libya's foreign ministry said it rejected any statements that "undermine the dignity of its people or diminish their standing." Libya's rival administrations in the east and west both denounced the remarks, rejecting attempts to draw Libya into what they called "electoral debates."
On Sunday night, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States was committed to ties with Libya, calling its people "proud, resilient, hospitable, and deserving of peace and prosperity." He added: "We respect the Libyan people and the sacrifices that brave Libyans made fighting ISIS, the common enemy of both our peoples, but Libya cannot remain a corridor for illegal migration, and this must end now."
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Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 利比亚首都的黎波里街景（资料图）。Tripoli, Libya (file photo). Photo: Abdul-Jawad Elhusuni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
