The UN mission in Libya has announced a face-to-face dialogue between the country's rivals to be held early next month in Tunisia.
Tunisia will host "the first face-to-face meeting" of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) "in early November, following preparatory virtual consultations,” the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said in a statement Saturday.
The forum's aim is "to generate consensus on a unified governance framework and arrangements that will lead to the holding of national elections in the shortest possible timeframe.”
The move was followed by a series of UN-backed talks in Morocco, Egypt and Switzerland.
UNSMIL said it "has made it a requirement for participants to the LPDF to recuse themselves from political and sovereign positions in any new executive arrangement... and to refrain from the use of hate speech and incitement to violence."
Participants "will be drawn from key Libyan constituencies... and with a firm commitment to the meaningful participation of Libyan women and youth," the statement added.
