UN postpones Libya peace talks to include more parties
The United Nations will postpone talks
aimed at ending Libya's current crisis in an attempt to include all
warring parties in the dialogue, UN Special Envoy to Libya Bernadino
Leon announced on Monday.
The dialogue, originally scheduled for
Tuesday, will be postponed to next week, to allow time to "discuss some
details with various parties in Libya," Leon said.
Libya has been witnessing a frayed
political process after the 2011 turmoil which toppled its former leader
Muammar Gaddafi. The country is now juggling two rival parliaments and
governments.
According to Libya's transitional plan,
the parliament elected in June, the House of Representatives, has
already replaced the former interim General National Congress (GNC).
However, the armed Islamist alliance Libya Dawn, which has achieved a
series of military progress lately in Tripoli, backs the GNC to resume
power and form its own government against the new one.
"The dialogue should be based on
respect. So we have agreed that this respect will mean that the
representatives from the GNC be attending the dialogue," Leon said,
adding that the two sides have different views and it is difficult for
them to sit at the same table to talk.
The previous national dialogue was held
in Libya's southwestern city of Ghadames on Sept. 29. Although most
parties attending the gathering agreed on a truce, no cease-fire has
actually been reached as fierce clashes still flare in major cities like
Tripoli and Benghazi.
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