UN-brokered Libyan political dialogue set to resume in Geneva

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Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 - 13:41 Makkah mean time-7-4-1436 Tripoli (IINA) – Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino Léon said that the Libyan stakeholders will return to Geneva this week for a new round of United Nations-brokered dialogue aimed at resolving the war-torn country’s longstanding political crisis. Léon said the participants in the second round of talks agreed upon the agenda aimed to reach a political agreement to form a consensual national unity government and confidence-building measures, as well as the venue of the next rounds of talks. “UNSMIL appeals to all the Libyan parties and invited participants to approach these talks aimed at ending Libya’s political and security crisis in a spirit of openness and reconciliation that is guided by the higher national interest of the Libyan people,” the UN Mission said in a statement issued on Tuesday. In addition to the main political track established during last week’s dialogue, another meeting later this week will bring together municipal and local council representatives from cities and towns across Libya to discuss confidence building measures and ways to implement them, the statement added. UNSMIL explained that it planned to convene a number of other tracks at a later stage which would include representatives from Libyan political parties, social and tribal forces, as well as the armed groups. AB/IINA