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UN envoy calls for Libyan unity government by August

2015-08-12 16 Dailymotion

The UN’s special envoy to Libya has called on the country’s two rival governments to conclude a peace deal by the end of August.<br /><br /> Bernardino Leon told reporters during talks in Geneva that a unity government needs to be formed by the end of the month .<br /><br /> “What Libya is facing now, is a deeper chaos and division of the country. So I hope all the Libyan actors will be wise, to avoid this scenario, to expedite the talks andto reach an agreement very soon,” he said.<br /><br /> Abdullah al-Thinni, the prime minister of Libya’s internationally-recognised government, said in an interview on Tuesday that he would resign if asked to do so by the Libyan people.<br /><br /> His spokesman later told the Reuters news agency that al-Thinni plans to stay in his post.<br /><br /> Libya descended into chaos after the Western-backed ouster of Moammar Gaddafi in 2011.<br /><br /> Militias seized the Libyan capital Tripoli a year ago, forcing al-Thinni’s administration to flee to the eastern port of Tirbruk.<br /><br /> The militias, operating under th

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