Germany to host Libya rivals for high-level talks
Libya’s warring factions will travel to the German capital, Berlin, to hold high-level talks with major powers, as international efforts for resolving the crisis in the Arab country gets a new momentum.
A spokesman for the United Nations (UN)’s mission to Libya said Tuesday that the delegations of rival Libyan governments that are currently in Morocco for talks will head to Berlin later in the day.
“Then we will all head to Berlin to meet European leaders and member countries of the UN Security Council,” Samir Ghattas told reporters, without giving specific details about who exactly the delegations will meet in Berlin.
Other sources, however, said that the negotiations in Berlin will be attended by foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
The development comes as a recent summit of the global economic powers, known as G7, in Germany ended with a plea with the Libyan warring sides to take decisive “political decisions” to prevent the country from turning into a failed state.
Positive reaction to UN proposal
The talks in Berlin will mainly focus on a draft deal proposed by Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya Bernardino Leon, who has intensified efforts for convincing the Libyan sides about an agreement before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on June 17.
Leon said Tuesday that the warring factions have reacted positively to a draft deal he proposed a day earlier aimed at forming a national unity government in the war-ravaged country.
“We have distributed, as you will have seen, a new proposed agreement. All I can tell you for now is that the reaction is positive,” Leon told journalists in the Moroccan seaside resort of Skhirat.
Libya has two rival governments battling for control of the country, with one faction controlling the capital, Tripoli, and the other, the country’s internationally-recognized government, governing the cities of Tobruk and Bayda.
Libya’s elected government and parliament relocated to Bayda and Tobruk after an armed group based in the northwestern city of Misrata seized Tripoli and most government institutions in August 2014.
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