Egypt Chief-of-Staff Mediates between Libyan Rivals in Cairo
Egypt's chief-of-staff has mediated between two Libyan rivals who refused to meet face to face in Cairo but later agreed to form a committee to renegotiate a U.N. peace deal.
Col. Tamer el-Rifai, an Egyptian army spokesman, says the two — the head of Libya's U.N.-backed government, Fayez Serraj, and Khalifa Hifter, the country's most powerful army commander — met separately with Egypt's chief-of-staff, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Hegazy late on Tuesday.
He says they agreed to form a joint committee that would make key changes to the 2015 U.N.-brokered peace deal.
Once the parliament, based in eastern Libya, endorses the changes, it would pave the way for parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
Libya's east-based parliament does not recognize the U.N.-backed government set up in the country's capital, Tripoli.
Source: Associated Press
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