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Algeria says foreign interventions hinder political solution in Libya

Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Algeria said on Monday the foreign interventions in Libya are hindering the recurrent attempts for peaceful resolution to the five-year-long crisis there.

"Algeria's position is still the same since the beginning of the crisis in Libya and we have said that there is no other option than political solution," Algerian Foreign Minister for Maghreb, the African Union and the Arab League, Abdelkader Messahel said on the sidelines of an international counter-terrorism forum in Algiers.

Messahel said foreign interference and military interventions have generated chaos, adding that he hopes the solution to the crisis in Libya comes from Libyans, through an inter-Libyan dialogue without any international interventions.

Libya has been hit by a civil war after the toppling of late leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The collapse of the regime there transformed the country into a battlefield of different armed groups, including terrorists.

Libyan protagonists reached a shaky peace accord following UN-sponsored talks held in the Moroccan resort of Skhirat in December 2015. Endit