Egypt had walk-on roles to play in Libya stories coming out of the weekend. Eastern oil officials agreed to resume crude exports from the port of Hariga last week, but the deal would require UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez al Serraj to make peace with the east, Bloomberg writes. On Friday, General Khalifa Haftar, who heads up troops in the east, said it would be "unthinkable" for eastern Libyan forces to join a UN-backed unity government until militias aligned to it are disbanded. Militants and rebels view Haftar as an Egyptian-backed relic of the old guard with presidential ambitions. “If the international community supports us … by lifting the embargo on weapons, then we could eliminate Daesh in Libya,” he said. “The U.S., France, Italy and the U.K. are pressuring General Haftar and his main political backer, Aguila Saleh, to accept the unity government,” Riccardo Fabiani, senior North Africa analyst at Eurasia Group, said in a note quoted by Bloomberg. “Egypt, the U.A.E. and Russia would like the peace process to accommodate General Haftar and Aguila Saleh’s concerns.” Last week we reported that the US and all permanent members of the UN Security Council decided to begin arming the Libyan government.