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Algeria to host Libyan peace talks

Xinhua, March 9, 2015 Adjust font size:

Algeria on Sunday announced that some 15 Libyan senior officials and prominent activists are to participate in a UN-sponsored peace process in Algiers on Tuesday, APS news agency reported.

"We hope that the Algiers meeting would mark the start towards the formation of a national unity government and setting up security arrangements that would allow Libya to restore stability," Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra was quoted as saying in the report.

On Saturday, Abdelkader Messahel, Algerian Minister for African and Maghreb Affairs, said more than 200 Libyan activists had held secret peace talks in Algeria recently.

Separately in Morocco, another three-day UN-sponsored dialogue between Libya's warring factions was paused on Saturday, allowing time for representatives from rival parties to consult on plans to solve the ongoing crisis in Libya.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya said in a statement on Sunday that the talks will resume on March 11 in Morocco. Endit