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U.N., Western powers quietly bury December plan for Libya election
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 7, 2018 / 10:25 AM / UPDATED 22 MINUTES AGO
Exclusive: U.N., Western powers quietly bury December plan for Libya election
Ulf Laessing, Aidan Lewis
5 MIN READ
TUNIS/CAIRO (Reuters) - The United Nations and Western powers have given up hope that Libya will hold elections in the immediate future, focusing on reconciliation first among rival factions locked in a cycle of conflict, diplomats and other sources said.
In May, France had persuaded major players in the North African country to verbally agree to elections on Dec. 10 as a way of ending repeated rounds of bloodshed between competing factions that emerged after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising.
But weeks of fighting between rival militias in the capital Tripoli and deadlock between rump parliaments in Tripoli and the east has made that goal unrealistic, Western officials argue.
Shelving the plans for presidential and parliamentary elections is the latest setback for Western powers that helped topple Muammar Gaddafi seven years ago before stepping back and seeing hopes for a democratic transition crumble.
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Exclusive: U.N., Western powers quietly bury December plan for Libya election
Ulf Laessing, Aidan Lewis
5 MIN READ
TUNIS/CAIRO (Reuters) - The United Nations and Western powers have given up hope that Libya will hold elections in the immediate future, focusing on reconciliation first among rival factions locked in a cycle of conflict, diplomats and other sources said.
In May, France had persuaded major players in the North African country to verbally agree to elections on Dec. 10 as a way of ending repeated rounds of bloodshed between competing factions that emerged after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising.
But weeks of fighting between rival militias in the capital Tripoli and deadlock between rump parliaments in Tripoli and the east has made that goal unrealistic, Western officials argue.
Shelving the plans for presidential and parliamentary elections is the latest setback for Western powers that helped topple Muammar Gaddafi seven years ago before stepping back and seeing hopes for a democratic transition crumble.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-exclusive/exclusive-u-n-western-powers-quietly-bury-december-plan-for-libya-election-idUSKCN1NC25U
