The chief of Libyan military intelligence at Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous forces, Mohammed Al-Ganidi, said that military officials rejected the results of Cairo meetings on March 2018 that aimed at unifying the Libyan military institutions. Al-Ganidi told reporters that the rejection was based on the leaked information that, as a result of the unification, “the retired colonel and dual citizen as well as war captive” would be heading the Libyan army, referring with those words to Khalifa Haftar. He also raised concerns about the fact that the meetings were held in Egypt, a country that according to his words is “an enemy to Libyans and supporter for Haftar and his militias”. He added that countries like Egypt, UAE, and Saudi Arabia, which support militias, could not help form a Libyan military institution, citing UAE’s aircraft which strikes civilians in Derna without Libyan authorities’ knowledge. “Initiatives to unify the military institutions must come from inside Libya. We met in Misrata two years ago and several officials came even from eastern Libya to come up with an agreement on the matter but the Presidential Council hindered it and so did Fayez Al-Sirraj by disallowing a meeting in Mittiga and Misrata airbases”, he explained. He also indicated that Libyans needed a Libyan National Army concerned with securing the country’s borders and respects peaceful power circulation, rejecting any discussions that involve Khalifa Haftar and his militias.