The president of the Libyan Parliament congratulates the general chief of the Libyan army, KhalifaHaftar for the events of the 84th anniversary of the founding of the Libyan army

The high command celebrated this visit as a very important gesture in the interests of Libyan unity 

The president of the Libyan Parliament, Aquila Saleh, visited the chief general of the Libyan army, KhalifaHaftar on the occasion of the 84th anniversary of the founding of the Libyan army, which was officially on August 9, 1952.
This visit highlights the unity between the Libyan Parliament and the command of the Libyan army and the expression of good relations between both institutions, as seen in the development of the Benghazi government action.
Founding of the Libyan army
The Libyan army was founded before the establishment of the Libyan State itself, that is, before freeing the country from Italian colonization and announcing independence. This was on the ninth of August 1930, after the meeting of Prince Idris Al-Sanûsî with forty of the Libyan leaders residing in Egypt, for 3 days at his house in Alexandria, on October 20, 1939. 
Those gathered made a decision to authorize Idris to negotiate with the English government on the formation of an army tasked with participating in the liberation of Libya from Italian colonization. Indeed, a decision was issued to found the Libyan Army and an office was opened in Cairo on August 12, 1940 to accept volunteers. It was then known as "The Liberation Army or The Senussi Army", it was carried out in the Abu-Rawash area of Alexandria.
The Libyan Army participated in World War II alongside the Allied forces, and fought its first battle in the Sidi Al-Barani area of Alexandria in December 1940. It took a different battle flag than the rest of the 8th formations. British Army, a black flag mediated by a star and a crescent. 
Libyan forces continued to pursue the remnants of the retired Italians and Germans until they entered Cyrenaica and then Tripoli, which was liberated in January 1943.  
Until the Italian colonizer was expelled from Libya, and King Idris Al-Sanûsî declared from the balcony of the Al-Manar Palace in the city of Benghazi, on December 24, 1951. the independence and liberation of the country. Shortly after declaring independence, he officially celebrated the establishment of the “Libyan Army” on August 9, 1952, based on the first nucleus that was formed in Egypt, on August 9, 1940.