Sides of Libyan Conflict Agree to Merge Militias, Expel “Mercenaries”

Yesterday, the sixth day of the third and final round of the “constitutional track” meetings between the Libyan House of Representatives and the “ Council of State” began in Cairo, under the auspices of the United Nations Mission in Libya.

The participants in the meeting agreed, in principle, to merge the armed groups into state institutions and expel “mercenaries” and foreign forces from the country.

Yesterday, Khaled Al-Mashri, President of the State Council, was in Egypt with a UN invitation to meet Aqila Saleh, Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, in a new attempt to resolve their differences over the constitutional rule that allows presidential and parliamentary elections.

The participants in Cairo’s meetings agreed to settle the struggle over the executive authority between the “stability” government headed by Fathi Bashagha, who is backed by the House of Representatives, and his rival, Abdel Hamid al-Dabaiba, head of the temporary “unity” government.