Morocco holds a second round of talks between Libya’s political factions

By on March 13, 2015

The UN’s envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, met on Friday with representative of the Tripoli-based parliament in Morocco’s Skhirat town, hours ahead of a second round of talks between Libya’s warring camps.

“[Leon] is currently holding talks with the General National Congress delegation and he will later sit down with representatives from Libya’s civil society,” a UN official told The Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.

The Islamist-led GNC had asked to postpone talks that were originally scheduled to start Thursday by one day so that its members would discuss a proposal for a national unity government which has been drafted during earlier dialogue sessions.

Representatives from the rival Tobruk-based parliament are expected to arrive in Skhirat later on Friday to take part in the talks, according to the UN official.

Libya’s warring rivals held a round of talks under the UN’s auspices in Morocco last week in an effort to resolve the conflict in the Arab country.

Libya has remained in a state of turmoil since a bloody uprising ended the decades-long rule of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.

Since then, the country’s stark political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government, each with its own institutions and military capacities.

Vying for legislative authority are the Tobruk-based House of Representatives and the Islamist-led GNC, which convenes in Tripoli.

The two assemblies support two rival governments respectively headquartered in the two cities

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