Rival Libyan leaders to form unified government
Libyan leaders governing the two rival governments have agreed to form a single unified government.
The BBC, in its report, stated that the two parties met in Egypt where they agreed to end the more than decade old political stalemate.
General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Arab League Secretary, led the talks.
In their joint statement on Sunday, the leaders said they had agreed on the “necessity” of forming a new unified government that would supervise long-delayed elections and “unify sovereign positions”.
The negotiation involved the president of the Libyan Presidential Council and the head of the High State Council, both based in Tripoli, as well as the speaker of the House of Representatives in the rival Benghazi-based administration.
Libya began to fracture after the fall of long-serving ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The country is split between the internationally recognised government in the west, led by interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah in Tripoli, and an administration in the east run by military strongman Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi.
