Friday, 4 September 2015

UN launches new round of Libya peace talks

In the coming days, Leon will meet representatives of the Tobruk- and rival Tripoli-based parliaments [AP}

The United Nations has said that a new round of talks aimed at ending more than a year of violence and political chaos in Libya has opened in Geneva.
The UN special representative for Libya, Bernardino Leon,  was mediating the latest round of talks that opened in the Swiss City on Thursday.

The UN has been brokering talks aimed at establishing a unified government, and the September 3-4 talks are the latest round in long-running peace negotiations.
Libya has two rival parliaments and governments and has been torn apart by violence since the major western powers helped to topple long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The one in Tripoli, the General National Congress (GNC), is controlled by Libya dawn forces, while the internationally recognised government operates out of Tobruk, in the far east of the country.

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