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Although preparations for Libya's elections at the end of the year have failed for the time being after members of a dialogue forum could not find common ground during the talks, the Libyan premiere on Saturday called for parliamentary and presidential elections at their scheduled time. "We urge all parties and the UN mission to fulfill their obligations to allow the public interest to prevail and to agree on a mechanism to ensure the timely conduct of elections," Abdul Hamid Dbeibah wrote on Twitter.…

The Berlin conference on Libya gave hope for stability in the war-torn country when countries pledged to withdraw all foreign fighters and mercenaries on Wednesday. Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush expressed hope that progress would finally be made with a key commitment from the first conference in January 2020 - to withdraw foreign fighters. "We are making progress on mercenaries, so you will hopefully know in the coming days that mercenaries from both sides will withdraw and I think it will…

When the world powers met in Berlin on Wednesday to seek lasting peace in Libya by ensuring that the conflict-torn North African country stays steady on the road to general elections on December 24, Turkey is represented by Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu under the motto "Libya belongs to the Libyans." Representatives of Libya's caretaker government joined US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of France, Turkey and Egypt in UN-sponsored talks. While Russian Foreign Minister…

Germany will try to arbitrate a permanent solution to the Libyan crisis, as the sides will gather in Berlin to figure out a way to ensure that the country holds general elections in December. Efforts to end a decade-long spiral of violence in Libya would bring the country's transitional government, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to Berlin for the personal UN-sponsored talks. In a telephone conversation with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush just days before the meeting, Blinken stressed "the…