Head of State Supreme Council meets with Commander in Chief designate and General Staff figures

The Head of the State Supreme Council, Abdelrahman Al-Sweihli, met with the UN-backed GNA’s Commander in Chief, General Muhammad Al-Ajtal, and other Commanders in the General Staff.
The meeting took place in Tripoli Wednesday and discussed the ways to help and support the accord government, where the military figures reiterated that they will only deal with the legitimate bodies in the countries that are related to the GNA, above all the Presidential Council, which is considered the top military ranking commander in Libya as per the political agreement.

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