Representatives of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) and the High State Council (HSC) agreed that there is a need to end Libya’s current transitional period and begin arrangements for the permanent phase. They also stressed the need to continue holding meetings.

The UN Mission in Libya has announced that the country’s political and military rivals will hold direct talks early next month.

The UN’s Libya envoy on Monday urged rival parties to place the national interest before political ambitions when they meet for talks next month aimed at ending a decade of bloodshed.

Meetings are being held in Cairo today between members of the High State Council and the eastern-based House of Representatives to reach a settlement for the country’s conflict.

The UN has welcomed the understandings reached between the High Council of State and the House of Representatives in Tobruk regarding the criteria for appointments to key institutions.

The delegations from the Libyan parliament, the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR), and the High State Council (HSC) announced that they had reached a comprehensive understanding on the criteria for selecting the holders of Libya’s sovereign positions.

Delegates from Libya’s two rival administrations have announced that the second round of talks culminated on criteria to select the heads of sovereign positions in the country.

Libya’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) yesterday rejected the outcomes of the Libyan political talks taking place in the Bouznika outskirt of Rabat, Morocco on the political appointment of the country’s two highest judicial positions.

The United Nations chief on Monday urged Libya’s warring parties and outside states to work toward a lasting cease-fire, warning the war-torn country’s “future is at stake.”

Germany’s foreign minister on Monday voiced “cautious optimism” over efforts to end the conflict in Libya, as top diplomats sought to foster a peace drive given new impetus by a series of talks in recent weeks.