By Press Association 2021
Stephanie Williams, acting special representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia (Walid Haddad/AP)
Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides kick off a five-day meeting on Monday to choose an interim prime minister and a three-person presidency council, in a crucial bid to reunite the troubled oil-rich country before an election in December.
The Libyan political dialogue forum, including envoys from around Libya, meets under UN mediation in an undisclosed site outside Geneva in hopes of stabilising a largely lawless country since Muammar Gaddafi’s fall and killing in 2011.
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Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides have kicked off a five-day meeting to choose an interim prime minister and a three-member presidency council in a crucial bid to reunite the troubled oil-rich country before an election in December.
The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, which includes envoys from around Libya, met on Monday under UN mediation in an undisclosed site outside Geneva in hopes of stabilizing a country that has been largely lawless since Muammar Gadaffi’s fall and killing in 2011.
The gathering, which will select from an agreed list of candidates, caps a process begun in Berlin in January 2020 for a North African country mired in international meddling and pockets of violence despite a holding ceasefire.