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UN envoy holds meetings with Libyan parties despite Tripoli-based parliament's absence

Xinhua, July 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

UN envoy to Libya held meetings with participants in the Libyan political dialogue and representatives of several municipal councils on late Friday, with the absence of the General National Congress (GNC), the Tripoli-based parliament.

The GNC decided not to go back to Morocco unless the UN facilitation agrees to reopen negotiations on its proposed amendments on the political draft agreement.

The UN envoy Bernardino Leon convened a number of meetings with a group of participants in the Libyan Political Dialogue and representatives of the municipal councils, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement late Friday.

Leon called on all parties to leave the constraints of the past and look forward to formulating a common future that promotes collaboration, reconciliation and national unity, it added.

The statement said also the participants stressed their full support to the dialogue and their readiness to support its implementation.

Libya, a major oil producer in North Africa, has been witnessing a frayed political process after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled during the 2011 political turmoil.

The country is now deadlocked in a dogfight between the pro-secular army and Islamist militants, which has led to a security vacuum for homegrown extremism to brew.

The UN has brokered several rounds of dialogues between the conflicting parties since last September, but clashes persisted despite a truce agreed by the warring factions. Endit