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| Libya parties urge halt to military operations |
| 2015-03-12 |
| [Iran Press TV] A UN-brokered meeting among representatives of six Libyan parties has yielded a declaration calling for the cessation of military operations in the violence-wrecked country. The attendees, envoys of six parties and five activists, agreed during the Wednesday meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers on the two-page declaration, which called for "an immediate halt to military operations to allow dialogue to continue." According to the document, they aimed to send "a strong, clear and united message on their commitment to consider dialogue as the only way forward and to reject violence." UN envoy Bernardino Leon, who also attended the talks, told a news conference the meeting was "an important step" towards peace. "There are two options: a political accord or destruction," Leon warned on Tuesday. "Destruction is not an option." |
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