Italy has conveyed "strong reservations" to Libya's internationally recognised premier Fayez al-Sarraj over controversial agreements he inked last month with Turkey, foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday.
"I expressed strong reservations over the agreements recently signed with Turkey," Di Maio told Italian lawmakers after a visit on Tuesday to Libya, where held talks with Sarraj as well as his rival, eastern warlord Khalifa Haftar.
Di Maio was referring to security and maritime jurisdiction accords signed by Sarraj and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on 27 November which the European Union has slammed as a violation of international law.
"We view the agreements as complicating a situation that is already particularly complex," Di Maio said.
Ahmed al-Mismari, spokesman for Haftar, said last week that the accords with Turkey damaged Italy's national interests in its former colony.
The accords have stoked tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, where a number of countries are vying for the rights to hydrocarbon resources.
