Sharjah 24 – AFP: The UN called for a "final and courageous effort" to break the deadlock over the rules for long-awaited elections in war-torn Libya, as talks between rival institutions began in Geneva.
Parliament speaker Aguila Saleh and President of the High Council of State Khaled Al-Mishri are meeting at the UN's Palais des Nations for two days of talks to discuss the draft constitutional framework for elections.
Presidential and parliamentary elections, originally set for December last year, were meant to cap a UN-led peace process following the end of the last major round of violence in 2020.
But the vote never took place due to several contentious candidacies and deep disagreements, over the polls' legal basis, between rival power centres in the east and west of the country.
A week of talks between the Tripoli-based High Council and Saleh's eastern-based House of Representatives (HoR), aimed at agreeing on a constitutional basis for a vote, ended last Monday without a deal.
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