Abusahmain speaks at military parade marking 4th liberation anniversary.

Tripoli, 09.07.2015 (Lana) President of GNC, Nuri Abusahmain stated that any shift to a new phase must based on respect of Constitutional Declaration and Constitutional Court. In a speech at the military parade marking the 4th liberation anniversary Wednesday, at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Abusahmain said the GNC welcomes a body such as House of Representatives or any other body however, through consensual solutions. He stressed that the homeland can accommodate all and no one may claim monopoly of power, the capital or any Libyan city. This event Abusahmain said, is a theme for peace and not for war or fighting, and to proclaim justice, principles as bases for what the martyrs sacrificed their lives. The fighting raged on these days of last year was not to uphold the GNC as some media alleged, or to install a House of Representatives or a particular government. Abusahmain pointed out that the coup started earlier in February, 2014 when coup plotters emerged and declared the freezing of the Constitutional Declaration and arrest of GNC president and members and Head of General Staff of the Libyan armed forces, and considered the legislative body elected by Libyans a target wherever it meets and indeed amassed the public to call for no extension of GNC. He noted that these developments unfolded before the eyes of European ambassadors to Tripoli, UN mission in Tripoli and indeed the whole world. The GNC accepted to speed up the formation of February Committee, hoping for a peaceful rotation of power, and indeed elections were held and approved and a hand over procedure were held, but the coup plotters wanted it to be a discord, war and extension to the former tyrant regime. Abusahmain explained that the Constitutional Court passed a resolution and considered the House of Representatives null and void and to stop bloodshed of Libyans and curtail divisions and unify ranks, the GNC responded to proposal of UN mission for a dialogue and a delegation was formed to represent it without preconditions provided some invariable highlighted by the High Court and public rallies are upheld. Abusahmain wondered in his speech about the lives killed, the wounded, the orphans and widows and house destroyed over their occupants and fate of Benghazi, Derna and Kikla, the fate of the south and regions controlled by former regime through suspicious truce, reconciliations and agreements. He pointed out that some former regime figures were empowered in some cities, and the revolutionaries are the ones who are wanted now and not former regime figures and criminals who are indicated by the courts. Abusahmain explained that Libya is neither the source nor the destination of illegal immigration but a transit country, and not as some media claim that it is a sanctuary for terrorism especially by sisterly Tunisia which we respect its presence, government and people, expressing regrets that some media men, politicians and officials who use Libya as a scapegoat for the weakness of performance of their security and military institutions such as the attack in Sousse or Bardo museum, as if terrorism, terrorist movements exist only in Libya. Abusahmain wondered did what happen in the France, the USA, Canada and other European countries and what is happening in Iraq, Yemen, Syria its source is Libya. Does those who were caught in bombings in Libya and came from Tunisia and other countries originated from Libya. Abusahmain said GNC offered assistance many times and that NSG officials went to Tunisia several times in several occasions in this respect without any response or cooperation from the Tunisian side. He stressed that Libyans would not forget the stance of Tunisia both people and government with the Libyan people during the revolution, expressing hope that such historic relation expand between the two countries and that cooperation be based on objective and methodological basis. GNC president praised at the end of his speech the armed forces which he said are anxious to show up on this day to send a message domestically and externally that we are peace advocates but that does not mean surrendering or show consternation before our enemies. He reassured the people of Tripoli and all Libyans that the GNC and its forces are capable of protection a united Libya. =Lana=