The Head of the UNSMIL Ghassan Salame arrived Tuesday morning in Tripoli and met with the Foreign Minister of the UN-backed Government of National Accord Mohammed Sayala and other officials.

Hard on the House of Representatives’ (HoR) sending its  regrets to Cairo over the terrorist ambush in western Egypt in which at least 54 security personnel died, Egyptian warplanes have struck a suspect convoy entering the country from Libya.

A month of UN-backed Libya peace talks have ended with no progress towards stabilising the country or elections. 

The UNSMIL’s Head Ghassan Salame brought the second round of the Libyan dialogue in Tunisia’s capital to an end on Saturday, stressing that the disagreement remains in place over Article 08 of the additional provisions between the House of Representatives (HoR) and the High Council of States’ (HCS) committees.

Following the resumption of the UNSMIL-brokered negotiations in Tunis on Thursday between the dialogue committees of the House of Representatives (HoR) and the State Council (SC), the two sides are reported to have agreed to set up subcommittees to focus on each of the main issues of contention in the …

Media sources said that the Egyptian Ambassador to Libya, Mohamed Abu-Bakr, had met some members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) in Tunisia.

Local media reported sources from the dialogue committee of the House of Representatives (HoR) as saying that the UNSMIL’s Head Ghassan Salame met with the Heads of the HoR and High Council of State’s (HCS) committees Faraj Mousa and Abdelsalam Nasiya.

UNSMIL has produced a surprisingly bullish summary of today’s resumed Joint Drafting Committee talks in Tunis,  saying there were only a few remaining gaps to be filled before agreement could be reached.

The first deputy head of the State Council, Mohamed Emazzeb, said that the controversial point in the Unified Drafting Committee of the Political Agreement amendment is the mechanism of selecting the members of the Presidential Council (PC) and the Prime Minister.

The Head of the dialogue committee of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) Abdelsalam Nesiya, announced Monday evening that they had suspended their participation in the negotiations in Tunisia at the UNSMIL’s headquarters.