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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 01:48 PM Sep 2014

UN Seeks Libya Peace Talks as More Than 140,000 Flee Conflict

Source: Bloomberg

By Salma El Wardany Sep 22, 2014 1:02 PM ET

More than 140,000 people have fled conflict areas in Libya since fighting between feuding militias started weeks ago, the United Nations said, as it sought to convene the first talks aimed at halting the conflict.

The “rapidly deteriorating security situation” is causing new waves of displacement, particularly on the western outskirts of the capital, Tripoli, and in the eastern city of Benghazi, where fighting has killed dozens of people, according to a joint statement from the UN Refugee Agency and its World Food Programme.

Separately, the UN mission on Libya said on its website yesterday that it has proposed an “initial round of dialogue” between the warring parties on Sept. 29.

Rival militias have been fighting for more than seven weeks in the worst unrest since 2011, when an uprising toppled longtime leader Muammar Qaddafi. Since then the country has slid into chaos as armed militias defy central control, while deep political divisions have led to the emergence of two rival parliaments and governments.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-22/libya-fighting-leaves-more-than-140-000-people-displaced-un.html

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UN Seeks Libya Peace Talks as More Than 140,000 Flee Conflict (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2014 OP
Perhaps the UN should invoke R2P CJCRANE Sep 2014 #1
I think its high time we retire that policy jamzrockz Sep 2014 #4
Looks like partition should be included in these talks... Amonester Sep 2014 #2
Gaddafi was warning us jamzrockz Sep 2014 #3
 

jamzrockz

(1,333 posts)
4. I think its high time we retire that policy
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 02:57 PM
Sep 2014

Right now its just a tool for western govts to overthrow non compliant leaders. Where is P2P for the east Ukrainian suffering under the coup govt? or for the Bahrain people who rose up during the arab spring? the govt brutally cracked down on them and nobody gave a fuck.

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
2. Looks like partition should be included in these talks...
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 01:55 PM
Sep 2014

as in "two rival parliaments and governments" suggests.

 

jamzrockz

(1,333 posts)
3. Gaddafi was warning us
Mon Sep 22, 2014, 02:54 PM
Sep 2014

But we did not listen, now we have Iraq 2.0 on our hands. The country was flying high with Gaddafi in power, now its shit. But wait, we can still repeat our disastrous interventionist foreign policy on Syria and when it goes wrong, we sit around wondering what we did wrong.

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