- Title: LIBYA-SECURITY/TALKS Libya's warring parties meet for peace talks in Geneva
- Date: 12th August 2015
- Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (AUGUST 12, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIORS OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS VARIOUS INTERIORS OF U.N. HEADQUARTERS PLENARY SESSION WITH LIBYAN POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS ONGOING VARIOUS OF U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR LIBYA, BERNARDINO LEON, (MIDDLE), HEAD OF THE TOBRUK-BASED HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MOHAMED ALI SHOEB TO HIS RIGHT, LIBYAN DEPUTY PRESIDENT OF THE
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- Location: Switzerland
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Special envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon convened a plenary session gathering Libya's rival factions at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday (August 12).
About 30 Libyans sat in stony silence during a photo opportunity with Leon in a room where the Conference on Disarmament usually meets.
Leon on Tuesday called on the country's warring parties to agree on a national unity government by the end of August and endorse it with a vote in September.
Highlighting the risk that the talks, which have dragged on for almost a year, become irrelevant as the security situation worsens, Libya's rival governments flew air strikes against suspected Islamic State positions in two cities.
Libya is split between two governments backed by armed factions fighting each other but which control limited territory. Islamic State and other armed groups have exploited a growing security vacuum on the ground to expand. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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